Transforming History: A Curriculum for Cultural Evolution

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Summary: Bush the 'Education' President Should Read This
Review: Required reading for anyone embarking on a career in our endangered educational system, William Irwin Thompson's current offering helps us understand what he sees as a shift from an Atlantic culture of capitalism and the printed word
to a Pacific culture of electronically inspired socialism, simultaneity, and easy shifting to and from various cultural modes. Exhibiting an impressive philosophical deftness which gels on occasion into specious casuistry (a
tendency George Steiner indulges in quite often as well), the author manages to chart out a constructively accessible outline on how we can better educate our children and teenagers by breaking the pervasive spellcasting of television and
other detrimental intrigues at large in our mono-culture. The author's main concern throughout the book is 'how to transform a cultural legacy in the course of transmitting it' a feat that will require much effort to accomplish for future educators indeed. However, reading Transforming History will make such a
task easier and more interesting to do as well by offering us much needed options as well as strategies to bypass the culturally retarding programs of our current 'Education President' and his questionable emphasis on the ten
commandments, prayer in school and of course his drive to have the pledge of allegiance circumscribed to read 'One Nation under Bush.'
Available from Lindisfarne Books (www.lindisfarne.org)