Joy, Timothy, "Crime and Astonishment", 1996
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Traditional education long ago stripped its students of tools of integration; indeed, integrated or interdisciplinary studies take place almost exclusively in pre-school and, later, post-graduate work-the sixteen or so years in between stretch out as a wasteland of discrete, rudimentary tasks bearing little or no connection to any other discipline of one's education or aspect of one's life. Our American methodology of keeping subjects separate had dismembered their world, served it up to them as lab reports and vocabulary lists and odd-numbered math problems and history work sheets and standardized test easily graded by Scantron machines. Sometimes there was knowledge, but rarely understanding. What it-along with other factors-produced was a rising illiteracy, a thorough sense of confusion and uselessness about education, and a weeping boredom by about third or fourth grade.
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