“The institution of school,” according to the anthropologist Susan Blum, “has outlived its usefulness.”
She makes that forceful claim in her new book, “I Love Learning; I Hate School”: An Anthropology of College, which offers a comprehensive indictment of the American higher-education model today.
Many of us who do research and write about teaching and learning in higher education (present company included) believe fundamentally in the enterprise but see room for improvement. But Blum sees a fatally flawed system and thinks incremental changes won’t cut it.
