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Paul Goodman - New York Herald Tribune

[A] gem of a book.

Saturday Review

(Named a Saturday Review Most Important Book on Education for 1960-1961)

Gerald James Sullivan - Commonweal

This is an epochal book in that long tradition of writing on education which goes back at least to the Phoenix episode in Book Nine of the Iliad, where Homer introduces the old tutor whose job it was to teach the young Achilles to be 'a doer of deeds and a speaker of words.' The Process of Education gives accurate expression to the current ferment in educational thought in this country, lays to rest the ghosts of some outmoded approaches, and provides an exciting discussion of the direction educational theory and research should now take...The main point, around which revealing flashes of insight and a series of brilliant suggestions cluster, is that any subject must be taught in a way that constantly reveals its underlying structure...[and] that no topic is intrinsically too difficult to be presented honestly in some form to the young.

Fortune

Ranks as one of the most important and influential works on education.

Los Angeles Times

A seminal work...on learning theory, readiness, structure, intuitive and analytical thinking, which grew out of the Woods Hole conference of 1959 on curriculum reform (of which Dr. Bruner was chairman).

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