The End of Education — When School Loses Its Meaning (Deep Dive)

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This episode explores The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School by Neil Postman, a systems-level analysis of why modern schooling struggles when it loses a shared narrative explaining why learning matters.

Postman argues that the crisis in education is not technical but metaphysical. Schools have replaced meaningful, unifying stories with weak substitutes such as economic utility, technological progress, and cultural tribalism. When education becomes job training, testing, or ideological conflict, students lose a sense of purpose and continuity.

This episode treats The End of Education as a systems narrative — examining how institutions fail when technique replaces meaning and efficiency replaces wisdom.

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