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Few Americans would disagree that serious problems plague their country’s education system. But what is the real reason for this serious malady? According to author and long-time teacher Rick Tobin, the usual suspects-beleaguered teachers, overcrowded classrooms, lack of funds, etc.-aren’t to blame. Tobin believes that critics of the educational system have totally missed the point and that educational reform is aimed in the wrong direction. In his view, academic failure is the direct result of a loss of faith in American democracy. Current teaching objectives and the laws governing schools are failing to emphasize moral responsibility and personal accountability-fundamental aspects of the ethical framework that form the basis of American democracy and American education. These problems stem from what Tobin terms a prevailing “egoist” culture in America that largely ignores moral character building and downplays the need for individual accountability. He contends there are millions of Americans who fall within nine “classes” of people who are largely responsible for our educational mediocrity. Rick Tobin doesn’t mince words in this candid expose, in which he also offers solutions for remedying our educational woes.
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John Smith
reviewed The Common Class: Egoism and the Attack On American Education on September 21, 2020
The Common Class
I am not concerned that this writing is a century old. How much more have we learned about our mind’s workings in the last hundred years that we have not during the previous centuries? I was however caught by the author’s lack of acknowledging the famous dictum of Socrates “know thyself†and the ancient’s questioning the limits of such knowledge. The author is optimistic at the very start that “the mind can be known and studied as truly and as scientifically as can the world of matter.†He proposes that “introspection†is “the only means of discovering nature of consciousness.†(p. 1) Introspection is catching ourselves “unaware, so to speak, in the very act of thinking†or in whatever phase of consciousness our mind is engaged. (p. 2)
Betts describes consciousness as a process or a stream that begins in the cradle with the baby’s first groping for light and so at the end with the last groping after light. We can only observe a moment of passing stream of consciousness. Another way of looking at it is as a field with the consciousness in the elevated in the center with whatever is we are thinking about at the present moment. We are led by either interests or will towards these peaks of attention.
The author proposes to us to try observe our thinking, feeling, or willing over the next twenty four hours.
This is my reading of the first chapter.
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