The Education Mirage: How Teachers Succeed and Why the System Fails

by Ira Winn

How can education foster critical thinking? Why do our supposedly best-educated lead us toward political and ethical bankruptcy? What can be done to supplant the current testing mania? In The Education Mirage educator Ira Winn faces just such questions, and more.

Here you will learn creative teaching, not the piling of facts or memorizing what to think and the five reasons why--which leads to classroom stupor. Today, teaching is often mechanical,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595291422
• ISBN13: 9780595291427
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"