Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our Own; Contents; Preface: What Is an Educated Mind?; Acknowledgments; Prologue: 1892; 1-The Great Minds on Education: Plato Meets Grandview Prep; 2-Thinking and Experience in School; 3-What Uneducated Minds Need; 4-The Formally Educated Mind; 5-What Is Required for a Good Education?; 6-How High School Got That Way (the Search for the Smoking Gun); 7-Producing Educated Minds Is Not the University's Problem; 8-Structuring the Learning Experience; 9-Teaching and Testing in the Modern World; 10-Horses for Courses: The Story Centered Curriculum
Summary
In the author's words: "This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world." Schank's argues that no matter how important science and technology are, as a society we believe that those educated in literature, history and other humanities are more worthy of the descriptor "well educated."
