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Publication Name
McClelland & Stewart
ISBN
9780771070488
Book Title
More Money than Brains : Why Schools Suck, College Is Crap, and Idiots Think They're Right
Item Length
8.7in
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Publication Year
2010
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.8in
Author
Laura Penny
Genre
Education, History, Humor, Political Science
Topic
Topic / Politics, Canada / General, General, United States / 21st Century, Aims & Objectives, United States / General, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
15.4 Oz
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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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 Brains takes a deadly and extremely funny aim at those who would dumb us down.

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McClelland & Stewart
ISBN-10
0771070489
ISBN-13
9780771070488
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
More Money than Brains : Why Schools Suck, College Is Crap, and Idiots Think They're Right
Author
Laura Penny
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Topic / Politics, Canada / General, General, United States / 21st Century, Aims & Objectives, United States / General, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Education, History, Humor, Political Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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Item Length
8.7in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.8in
Length
8.7in
Item Weight
15.4 Oz

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Praise forYour Call Is Important To Us: "Put Penny's slim but venomous diatribe … at the top of your must-read list." -USA Today "An admitted crank on a rant, Penny's rollicking full-tilt prose style will leave you laughing on the outside while weeping on the inside." -Quill & Quire "A delightful rant, sustained over 10 chapters by Penny's gift for savoury snark." -Winnipeg Free Press "At her angriest … Penny - a Naomi Klein for cranky people with a sense of humour - is at her funniest, with sizzling riff after riff." -Globe and Mail, " More Money Than Brains is a ferocious defence of the arts and humanities against the philistine influence of Homo economicus (subspecies Goldman Sachsus). . . [Penny's] unflinching willingness to entertain puts her light years ahead of her Canadian competitors."  - Globe and Mail "An unflinching indictment of North American education, politics and media."  - Toronto Star, "More Money Than Brainsis a ferocious defence of the arts and humanities against the philistine influence of Homo economicus (subspecies Goldman Sachsus). . . [Penny's] unflinching willingness to entertain puts her light years ahead of her Canadian competitors." - Globe and Mail "An unflinching indictment of North American education, politics and media." - Toronto Star
Copyright Date
2010
Dewey Decimal
306.097109/0511
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22

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