FREE ESSAY ON NEIL POSTMAN'S END OF EDUCATION

NEIL POSTMAN'S END OF EDUCATION

"Five Ways to Wisdom
Otto Freidrich shares five common ideas with Neil Postman. The first idea is education
means careers. This basically means that most people believe that by going to school the
only that comes from that is a job. This idea shares a common principle with Mr.
Postman's Theory of Economic Utility, which deals with that fact that kids in school
believe that if you do well in school, you are guaranteed a high paying job.
Education transmits Civilization is an idea that Mr. Freidrich proposes, it basically
deals with the idea of memorization and the idea for a possible curriculum that should
include basic classes. This follows Neil Postman idea, because Mr. Postman believes that
students are memorizing information only to pass a test, instead of benefitting from
acquring knowledge. The second idea expressed in Five Ways to Wisdom that draws
similarity to Neil Postman's End of Education is that their should be classes our
students should be required to take, both authors list three and discuss the effects of
having a set curiculum.