More Money Than Brains

Why School Sucks, College is Crap, & Idiot Think They're Right

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Humour & Comedy, General Humour, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Laura Penny ISBN: 9781551993461
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Publication: April 20, 2010
Imprint: McClelland & Stewart Language: English
Author: Laura Penny
ISBN: 9781551993461
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Publication: April 20, 2010
Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
Language: English

One of Canada's funniest and most incisive social critics reveals why in North America, where governments spend so much on schools and colleges, training is valued far more than education and loud-mouth ignoramuses are widely and publicly celebrated.

Public education in the United States is in such pitiful shape, the president wants to replace it. Test results from Canadian public schools indicate that Canadian students are at least better at taking tests than their American cousins. On both sides of the border, education is rapidly giving way to job training, and learning how to think for yourself and for the sake of dipping into the vast ocean of human knowledge is going distinctly out of fashion.

It gets worse, says Laura Penny, university lecturer and scathingly funny writer. Paradoxically, in the two nations that have among the best universities, libraries, and research institutions in the world, intellectuals are largely distrusted and yelping ignoramuses now clog the arenas of public discourse.

A brilliant defence of the humanities and social sciences, More Money Than Brainstakes a deadly and extremely funny aim at those who would dumb us down.

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One of Canada's funniest and most incisive social critics reveals why in North America, where governments spend so much on schools and colleges, training is valued far more than education and loud-mouth ignoramuses are widely and publicly celebrated.

Public education in the United States is in such pitiful shape, the president wants to replace it. Test results from Canadian public schools indicate that Canadian students are at least better at taking tests than their American cousins. On both sides of the border, education is rapidly giving way to job training, and learning how to think for yourself and for the sake of dipping into the vast ocean of human knowledge is going distinctly out of fashion.

It gets worse, says Laura Penny, university lecturer and scathingly funny writer. Paradoxically, in the two nations that have among the best universities, libraries, and research institutions in the world, intellectuals are largely distrusted and yelping ignoramuses now clog the arenas of public discourse.

A brilliant defence of the humanities and social sciences, More Money Than Brainstakes a deadly and extremely funny aim at those who would dumb us down.

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