economy was in its worst recession since the Great Depression and the nation’s business leaders were looking for someone or something to blame. The first CD player was just going on sale, Starbucks was just a coffee-bean shop in Seattle, and if you said “laptop” to people they’d have thought you were talking about a TV-dinner tray.įor all of those differences, there are some things that remain the same.
“Texting” was something you did on a typewriter. The closest thing to an “instant message” was a facial expression that exasperated mothers gave their children as a warning. And so, too, this book has evolved.īack in 1982 when the first edition appeared, there was no Internet or email, no cell phones, DVD players, iTunes, iPods, iPads, Amazon, e-books, Wi-Fi, Facebook, or Twitter. In the thirty years since the first edition of this book, much has changed in the world and in American education. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning it should produce not learned but learning people.
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