Wasted Why Education Isn’t Educating
“Wasted: Why Education Isn’t Educating” by Frank Füredi, published by A&C Black in January 2009, explores the complexities surrounding contemporary education. This 246-page book delves into the widespread concerns about educational systems, questioning why education has become a focal point for government ministers, social commentators, and parents alike. Füredi examines the implications of the politicization of education, suggesting that the current emphasis on economic development has overshadowed the intrinsic value of learning and the importance of understanding societal achievements.
Readers will find a thorough analysis that critiques the prevailing education debates, highlighting how proposed solutions often exacerbate existing issues. The book draws on a range of thinkers from ancient Greece to modern critics, offering insights into what is truly needed from educational institutions. By addressing the aims and objectives of education, Füredi invites readers to reconsider the fundamental purpose of schooling and the content that should be prioritized in the learning process.
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Never has so much attention been devoted to education. Everyone government ministers, social commentators and parents obsess about its problems. Yet we rarely ask why? Why is education a source of such concern? Why do many of the solutions proposed actually make matters worse?
Tony Blair’s ‘education, education, education’ slogan placed education at the forefront of political agendas. But, perhaps the ‘policisation’ of education is part of the problem. Today, education is valued for its potential contribution to economic development, but it is no longer considered important for itself. Increasingly, the promotion of education has little to do with the value of learning per se or with the importance of ‘being taught’ about societies’ achievements, so future generations have the intellectual ability to advance still further. Education has been emptied of its content.
This book is a brilliant piece of analysis. It peers into the hollowness of the education debates and, drawing on thinkers from the ancient Greeks to modern critics, it sets out what we need from our schools.
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