I have decided to take on reading the book that our teacher had mentioned in the first week of our course titled: Schooling In Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. It has been quite the book so far and it looks like I am in for quite the ride! I think the reason it look me so long to get through the first chapter is because half way through I realized the authors were summarizing the whole book.
NOTE: The first chapter took me four blogs to explain but this is because, as was mentioned above, it tackles the whole book at once. The following chapters in my blogs will not be as extensive and I will just pull the main concepts.
What I will do it title any blog that has to do with this book, 'The Book' and number them separately. What needs to be noted as well is that this book was written in the late 60's, early 70's.
I thought the first quote of the book was interesting, so I decided to add it before starting my summary...
'Those who take the meat from the table preach contentment, those who eat their fill speak to the hungry of wonderful times to come, those who lead the country into the abyss call ruling too difficult for the ordinary.'
Bertolt Brecht, 1937
(The first chapter does seem to mirror the first month of our course.)
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