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...theoretical synthesis Jones undertakes is no simple task, and he carries it off impressively. Considering the rigid rationalist bias of the schools and of many educational psychologists (not uninfluenced by Bruner). Jones's contribution is unquestionably timely-not a moment too soon. And considering the adulatory blurbs on the book jacket from big names in psychology (Klein, Hall, Maslow, especially Bruner), the book promises to rival Bruner's in its impact on the educational and scientific communities. But, alas, there are other things to consider...
...schools and the teachers. His own expert prescription for the problems of the schools is yet another theoretical elixir of little practical use as medicine and perhaps likely to have harmful side effects. Jones's fundamental weakness lies in his diagnosing and treating one symptom-the rationalistic bias-as if it were the entire disease, the entire problem, of American education...
...left few professors unscathed, they often fired their heaviest artillery at Crozier, who found himself to the right of everybody in the "reddest" department at Nanterre and probably all of France. Taking Crozier's reserved admiration for the American bureaucratic system as evidence of his pro-establishment and technocratic bias, the revolutionary students denounced him and taunted: "Mr. Crozier, is the American style of bureaucratic organization useful in Vietnam? Is it efficacious for liquidating the Vietnamese...
...play is that anything the U.S. does in the world is unvaryingly venal. Now to err is human, and since Americans are human, they err. But to imply that all their motives in world affairs are malignant, avaricious and murderous is surely to show a strong and unrealistic bias...
Although Peterson agreed to the charge that the board exams are culturally biased, he said, "there's also a cultural bias in education because you're learning how to think, not how to survive in boot camp or in a slum," Physical survival is very important, he added, "but very different from what you have to learn to survive at Harvard...