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Article: The Age of American Unreason/Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
- Article from:
- The Journal of American Culture
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Jun 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Age of American Unreason Susan Jacoby. New York: Pantheon, 2008.
Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality Charles Murray. New York: Crown Forum, 2008.
I should be able to write this review without recrimination, since Susan Jacoby is not likely to be reading a publication of the American Culture Association that is joined at the hip to the Popular Culture Association. In educational matters, she is something of a reactionary who still believes in the intellectual demands of the Enlightenment and who looks back to the 1950s as a Golden Age, before higher education went a-whoring after popular culture, though she is well aware of the dangers of the ...