by Leonard Peikoff

This path-breaking work identifies the central purpose of schooling—and argues that today's educational establishment is failing miserably.

1. Purpose of Education
Five leading theories and their results. Education as the systematic development of the conceptual faculty.

2-3. Teaching Thinking Methods
How to develop motivation. How to integrate knowledge. The role of memory in learning. How to achieve a logical structure. The need for certainty.

4. A Proper Curriculum
The three R's. Mathematics-science-history-literature: why and how they should be taught. Teaching the child values.

5. The Skill of Teaching
Lecturing vs. the discussion method. Training teachers. Good teachers vs. the welfare state.

Includes a recorded interview with Dr. Peikoff: "Objectivism—Q & A"

(CD; 11-CD set; 8 hrs. 28 min., with Q & A)