outsider's view of schools of education. Blames them for destroying education. Not well organized.

Hard hitting criticism of the educational system in the US and the hangup of using film in classrooms. A bit outdated, but replace 'film' with 'computers' and the criticism is as fresh as ever - as schools scramble to put more 'technology' into the class room, good old fashioned learning done by 'reading' (what a concept) is falling by the wayside. Instead of investing in good teachers and books, schools spent their money on the latest fads. Not that computers are bad - for example if schools would teach students how to write computer programs and thus boosting their mathematical and logical skills that would be good. But just putting computers (or as described in this book, showing a lot of film) is not a replacement for good old fashioned education. Ultimately, reading a book is still the most information-dense way of learning something. Highly recommended. ( )