John Heath (2)
Auteur van Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
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Werken van John Heath
Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom (1998) 397 exemplaren
Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Bestselling Books (2007) — Auteur — 133 exemplaren
The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato (2005) 14 exemplaren
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The book is at its strongest when it's defending the classics themselves, at its worst when it melds conservative US politics with said defense. For anyone outside of the US many of these themes will be familiar, including the watering down of the discipline with increasingly inane cross pollination from other disciplines in a desperate search for relevancy. The last part of the book tries to envision a complete restructuring of the (US) educational system, where the classics are not just a required part, but integral in a more holistic and cross-disciplinary education. While entirely utopian in vision it's a fairly interesting vision of alternative education in its own right.… (meer)