- Taschenbuch: 272 Seiten
- Verlag: Vintage; Auflage: Vintage Books. (12. April 1988)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0394758439
- ISBN-13: 978-0394758435
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,1 x 1,7 x 20,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.7 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (9 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 476.158 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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In this forceful manifesto, Hirsch argues that children in the U.S. are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. Includes 5,000 essential facts to know.
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Argues that American children are deprived of cultural literacy.
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This book explains why we need to make some very specific educational changes in order to achieve a higher level of national literacy. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Hirsch make many mistakes in his book, some omission, some of commission. Perhaps the most troubling is his notion that facts are knowledge. That is not a useful idea for anyone involved in education.
A core problem in our culture are books of lists. The curriculum, for the most part, is a mile wide and an inch deep. Hirsch's book does little about this, and in fact exacerbates the problem. Murray Gell-Mann, a scientist at MIT once remarked that, "education in the United States is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant and being fed the menu." The Hirsch book helps cultivate a taste for menus.
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I read this book in 1995 and found it fundamentally correct with respect to two ideas: 1) that a core of knowledge is necessary to infer, read-between-the-lines, and to understand wholly much written material; 2) that *content* is vital in education - the mental organization of which (though association and other means) is essential to becoming educated. To demonstrate another assertion, namely that public education is largely failing, Hirsch claims that a majority of high school seniors can not correctly answer this question: "in what decades did the Civil War, World War I, and World War II occur?" I was 35 when I read this and asked it of a 25-year-old architect - who would not even attempt it.
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In his treatise on the (lowly) state of US public education, Hirsch seems to stop short of theorizing his hypothesis. In fact, he appears as guilty of short changing students as the institutions he decries. I do not fully comprehend his want of a national core cirricullum, or how such a method would result in a nation of better readers. It seems to me that diversity is more important than a single national web of knowledge. I understand that if his list of 5,000 facts contained even a sample of the item, this book would be too cumbersome for bookstores. What I don't understand is why Babe Ruth is on the list, and Hank Aaron is not. Did someone say "elitism"?
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worth the read, also check out the Dictionary
Worth the read, some interesting ideas to chew on. Someone mentioned in a review about putting the stuff in the list online. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. April 1999 veröffentlicht
an interesting worthwhile read
Interesting insights into how people learn to read. Hirsch makes the case that reading is not just skill but requires some content to provide context and make reading more... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. März 1999 veröffentlicht
The Trivial Pursuit Approach to Education
Hirsch, in his Introduction, argues that a four-word Shakesperean quotation, "There is a tide" (from "Julius Caesar," meaning "Act now! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
This book is a must read for parents and teachers
As a future educator it is very important to familiarize oneself with various educational theories and this is one that definitely should be included one's repetoire. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Oktober 1998 veröffentlicht
The cultural genome and the limits of short term memory
The mind can only hold a small number of items in short term memory. Thoughts must be compressed and routed into long term memory or forgotten. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. Mai 1998 veröffentlicht
give it a read
I thought it important to say that this books does not come from the same viewpoint as "Closing of American Mind" -- to which it is often compared. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 31. März 1998 veröffentlicht
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