{"id":64,"date":"2019-01-31T15:25:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T15:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/?p=64"},"modified":"2019-01-31T15:29:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T15:29:33","slug":"postmans-end-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/postmans-end-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Postman&#8217;s &#8220;End of Education&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Awhile back, I\u2019d read an excerpt of <em>The End of Education<\/em> by Neil Postman. In the short excerpt, Postman introduces several arguments, regarding his views on the mechanics and underlying values of modern education; many of which I can remember becoming frustrated with, similar to how I (occasionally) found myself responding to Freire. Like Freire, Postman takes a highly cynical stance to the current state of education, and suggests a need for radical reform. However, in the case of Postman, he seems to raise some claims that I find to be far more concerning, when compared to Freire\u2019s. Mainly, it was Freire\u2019s opinions on personhood that bothered me, rather than his ideas for education reform; I simply disagree that any human is truly an \u201cempty vessel,\u201d as he claims. In the case of Postman, on the other hand, his similarly pessimistic view on education leads to some alarming claims, and suggestions for specific reform. An example of this is seen when Postman introduces a sample \u201cscript\u201d for educators to use, when introducing the course to their students. And, this portion of the script is:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cAnd to ensure that you do not fall into the torpor that is so common among students, I will, from time to time, deliberately include some patently untrue statements and some outrageous opinions\u201d (Postman).<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here, in short, Postman encourages educators to deliberately mislead or misinform students &#8212; without specifying that this is happening, when it\u2019s happening. And, considering Freire\u2019s similar distrust of modern-day education, this makes me <em>extremely<\/em> curious as to his hypothetical response to Postman\u2019s suggestions, and what that response would be, specifically.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awhile back, I\u2019d read an excerpt of The End of Education by Neil Postman. In the short excerpt, Postman introduces several arguments, regarding his views on the mechanics and underlying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/postmans-end-of-education\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Postman&#8217;s &#8220;End of Education&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}