The following is an excerpt from The End of Education by the culture critic Neil Postman (1931-2003). We covered other works by Postman in Al-Andalus Book Club, including Amusing Ourselves to Death and Technopoly. In this particular book, Postman reflects on the state of public education in the United States, which can arguably apply across the world […]
Tag Archives: Muslim scholars
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Jan
Jan
We live in precarious times with environmental, economic, and military threats, compounded by sociocultural changes happening at a speed that would make the grieving mother laugh, the pregnant woman miscarry, and the bald man turn gray. All this stems from a loss of objective morality and a reorientation away from the Sacred. In his text […]
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Apr
Apr
The Muslim nostalgia for the past and feelings of inferiority in the presence can sometimes lead one to project modern understandings and presuppositions about what is considered rational and intellectually respectable onto past scholars living during what is known as the Golden Age of Islam. However, a reading of works by those scholars, such as […]