The Washington Post – Valerie Strauss
“In education discussions, we hear about the need for more concrete standards, or for less testing, or for more testing, or for richer curriculum, or for better facilities, or for more attention to students’ individual needs. My book, Republic of Noise , discusses a problem related to all of these: the loss of solitude. Education is in large part solitary; it involves a meeting of mind and subject.”(more)