Why I Didn't Rebel. Shontell Brewer. Sarah Maddox. Bestsellers in Parenting. Matt Chandler , Adam Griffin. Hillary Morgan Ferrer.
Bill Johnson , Beni Johnson. Danny Silk. The Love Dare For Parents. Alex Kendrick , Stephen Kendrick. Gary Chapman , Ross Campbell. Patricia Weerakoon. Providing children with stories of right overcoming wrong—a list of recommended classics is included—is commendable, but the stirring tales may only highlight the morality gap, generating yet more classroom discussion of values.
Sowell's quarrel with "values clarification" programs like sex education, death-sensitizing, and antiwar "brainwashing" isn't that he disagrees with their positions but, rather, that they divert time and resources from the kind of training in intellectual analysis that makes students capable of reasoning for themselves.
Contending that the values clarification programs inspired by his archvillain, psychotherapist Carl Rogers, actually inculcate values confusion, Sowell argues that the universal demand for relevance and sensitivity to the whole student has led public schools to abdicate their responsibility to such educational ideals as experience and maturity.
On the subject of higher education, Sowell moves to more familiar ground, ascribing the declining quality of classroom instruction to the insatiable appetite of tangentially related research budgets and bloated athletic programs to which an entire chapter, largely irrelevant to the book's broader argument, is devoted. The evidence offered for these propositions isn't likely to change many minds, since it's so inveterately anecdotal for example, a call for more stringent curriculum requirements is bolstered by the news that Brooke Shields graduated from Princeton without taking any courses in economics, math, biology, chemistry, history, sociology, or government and injudiciously applied Sowell's dismissal of student evaluations as responsible data in judging a professor's classroom performance immediately follows his use of comments from student evaluations to document the general inadequacy of college teaching.
All in all, the details of Sowell's indictment—that not only can't Johnny think, but "Johnny doesn't know what thinking is"—are more entertaining than persuasive or new. Nor is this volume a defense of the Christian faith similar to other books from the pen of C.
The three lectures comprising the book are rather rambling talks about life and literature and philosophy. Those who have come to expect from Lewis penetrating satire and a subtle sense of humor, used to buttress a real Christian faith, will be disappointed. This book will help you have more strength as parents, grandparents, teachers etc. May 14, Tenley rated it it was amazing.
Every parent and educator should read this book. Very insightful about how the progressive movement has removed great literature from our schools. Takes on the debate: children are inherently good vs. Goes into depth on sex education, drug education, moral education, etc.
Shocking what some of the schools are teaching children. At the end of the book, the author gives a list of books to read to your children from beginner to advanced. Had to read this book for work. The most annoying thing about it was that it was super outdated information. It was first published in !
There were a few good things to think about: a return to classical education and character education, but I would have appreciated a more up to date view point and current statistics.
Also, this author did a lot of "finger shaking" at teachers, administrators, and parents, but offered very little suggestions on how to improve education. Mar 24, Glenn rated it liked it. A book examining why kids aren't moral. A good history of how parents and schools both changed in ways that may not have been, in hindsight, the best ways to teach kids moral behavior.
The author's answers to solve the problem are a little wacky, but he does include a list of books and stories that can help teach kids moral behavior, by either reading them in school, or at home with a parent.
Apr 09, John Wick rated it did not like it Shelves: ethics , pedagogy. One of the most dated and useless books I have ever read. It points a lot of blaming fingers and has outdated s views about where society has gone wrong in education.
This book contains a lot of fantastic advice for parents, teachers, and other leaders; however, the reason I give the five goldens is for chapter 11 on writing. Thanks, Kilpatrick. Excellent book about character education and developing virtue in self and youth.
Dec 04, Clem added it Shelves: bin Takes a bit of concentration to make it through, but i really enjoyed the information in this book. Well worth the time it took to read it! Jun 27, Katie rated it liked it. Just started. Very, very interesting Jun 01, Random Scholar rated it it was ok. I really liked the ideas Kilpatrick shared about how we can teach character to children. It was also nice to read about the history behind the lack of character education we see.
My only problem with this book is that it took a very negative tone towards homosexuality, rap and rock music. Considering that this was published in the early 's by a highly conservative, religious man I'm not surprised.
I just think that makes this book pretty dated. Otherwise, I resonated most with the idea that I really liked the ideas Kilpatrick shared about how we can teach character to children. Otherwise, I resonated most with the idea that we should model the behaviors we want children to show whether we are a teacher, parent or both. I also resonated with the emphasis Kilpatrick placed on stories, because I agree that children can be inspired to show certain character traits if they are portrayed in a positive, heroic light in certain stories.
This is a great way for teachers to weave character education into their schedule during literacy blocks when they may be pressed for time throughout an average work day. Jun 14, Steve rated it it was amazing Shelves: education. Every chapter consists of remarkable, insightful scholarship.
Kilpatrick handles each topic with ease and clarity; it'll simply blow your mind. Although it's up to the reader's discretion to plow through the last chapter of great book summaries, it will nonetheless make you want to jump into reading.
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