Teaching thinking

An ideological perspective

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Education suffers from a logical, not only an empirical, crisis resulting from the fact that society vests education with an ideal image of itself, and expects it to actualize that image – to “pro- duce” graduates that will make society just and happy. Since this expectation cannot ever be fully realized, education is in a crisis “by definition.” This inevitable and unrecognized crisis makes education vulnerable to the “savior syndrome” (Perkins, 1992): Education awaits some “transcendental” intervention – a new educational aim, a new teaching methodology, a new curriculum structure, a new technology, a new policy, a new education czar – that will save it and enable it to actualize its destiny.