What It’s About At last we’ve come to the end . . . the end of this blog series, of Neil Postman’s major works on education, and, perhaps, as the foreboding title of the present work suggests, of education itself, or at least one form of it. In The End of Education Postman makes the Read More…

What It’s About In part 1 of this series, we looked at Teaching as a Subversive Activity, in which Neil Postman and co-author Charles Weingartner make the case that the American public education system is in need of major reforms if it is to be effective in preparing students for the challenges of the ever-changing Read More…

In this series, I review what I take to be three of Neil Postman’s most influential works on education. First up (below) is Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969), to be followed in part 2 by Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), and finally part 3 will bring us to The End of Education (1995). Read More…