SKU: 591

We have been able to obtain a few copies of this wonderful, but now out-of-print book. Highly recommended reading for any homeschooling parent -- don't repeat the errors of modern education with your children. Mortimer J. Adler has been hailed as a "philosopher for everyman" (Time), and Reforming Education is his response to the pressing question "What can be done about American education?" Spanning his fifty-year career as one of America's foremost teachers, Reforming Education addresses the controversies about what should be taught in our elementary schools, high schools, and colleges; how it should be taught; for whom this education should be available; and to what end. At the heart of Reforming Education is Adler's great innovation, the paideia reform, reinstating "the general learning that should be the possession of all human beings," and as its subtitle implies, Reforming Education also challenges the faulty diagnosis and prescriptive, narrow remedy offered by Allan Bloom. For Adler, the best education for the best is the best education for all, and Reforming Education stands as an "eloquent and passionate defense of a truly democratic vision of education." (Publishers Weekly). Adler provides an eye-opening account of the "great books" programs used a Columbia University, the University of Chicago, St. John's College in Annapolis and Santa Fe, and in paidei elementary and secondary schools, and he sheds light on the current academic controversies over which books should be required reading for all students. Equally important is Dr. Adler's explanation of the skepticism and relativism about moral values so prevalent among students and teachers since the beginning of this century, and readers will find Adler at his best in setting forth the necessary steps for establishing a sound, practical, and objectively moral education and philosophy of life. It rests on an understanding of teaching and learning that is conspicuously absent from educational policies and practices so typical today. As homeschooling parents, we were educated under the same flawed educational policies and practices. Dr. Adler helps us wake up and avoid repeating those flawed educational practices with our own children. This is the hardback version and is generally of good quality.

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