Charles Weingartner

A dud. Postman matured immensely between 1969 when this book was published and 1985, when "Amusing Ourselves to Death" was published. Even in 1967 he could still write a few isolated good paragraphs, though. A later book, "The End of Education", published in the '90s, is far more a typical Postman book.

Whoops! This book made me think about how I ought to have taught the last time I was employed to teach, so it wasn't a dead loss.

Postman takes aim at education, proving that education has been terrible since the 60s and, from my experience, has possibly gotten worse. I wish I was still teaching so that I could implement his theories. Though the administrative authorities and boards would dislike it because it might make their jobs irrelevant.

As a recruiting book, this does have the snappy title for the late 1960's. And, so far as i remember it...it does explain what does happen, for good or ill, in classrooms.

Pretty boring, but might be useful to some teachers.