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The New World of Educationreviewed by Robert J. Nash - 1971 Title: The New World of Education Author(s): Marc Belth Publisher: Allyn and Bacon, Needham Heights, MA ISBN: , Pages: 217, Year: 1970 Search for book at Amazon.com The New World of Education illustrates both the promise
and the paucity of contemporary educational philosophy. As an
endeavor of promise, Marc Belth's examination of what he calls "a
time of upheaval" in education is set within a framework of
disciplined philosophic analysis. The purposes of the book are two:
to liberate educators from "the romantic assumptions and
quasi-mystical beliefs" which often short-circuit their practices,
and to propose five new models which will enable students to "think
together in an effort to reach clarity and definition . . .; to
think as another has thought . . .; to think introspectively; to
think in and of the terms of what is already known; to think of
what has not been thought before." By developing the latter
purpose, Belth hopes to bring about the former. The most important
consequence of this effort, according to the author, will be the
educator's awareness that his theory and practice of education do
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- Robert Nash
University of Vermont
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