“Five Ways to Wisdom

Otto Freidrich shares five common ideas with Neil Postman. The first idea is education means careers. This basically means that most people believe that by going to school the only that comes from that is a job. This idea shares a common principle with Mr. Postman’s Theory of Economic Utility, which deals with that fact that kids in school believe that if you do well in school, you are guaranteed a high paying job.

Education transmits Civilization is an idea that Mr. Freidrich proposes, it basically deals with the idea of memorization and the idea for a possible curriculum that should include basic classes. This follows Neil Postman idea, because Mr. Postman believes that students are memorizing information only to pass a test, instead of benefitting from acquring knowledge. The second idea expressed in Five Ways to Wisdom that draws similarity to Neil Postman’s End of Education is that their should be classes our students should be required to take, both authors list three and discuss the effects of having a set curiculum.

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