With many changes in education slanted towards the needs of the workplace, is true education being betrayed?
One of the most interesting voices in America on the meaning of education - what it is, why it is, what it ought to be - is Neil Postman, who for three decades has written with great understanding about the nature of education in a technological society.
From Teaching as a Subversive Activity on through Amusing Ourselves to Death and The End of Education, he has challenged America to think about the impact of modern consciousness on life, and particularly on education. Throughout, his concern has been to stand against the subtle seductions inherent in our culture's inescapable negotiation with technology, which 'in sum, is both friend and enemy'. And, perhaps, nowhere more so than in schools and schooling.
