Grading Academia: & Other Adventures in Education

by Rodney Shaw

The author describes a fifty-year journey through seven educational establishments – ranging from a small schoolboy at an impoverished village school in England, to a professor in a modern university in the USA. While describing his experiences he develops his own concepts of what makes a successful educational establishment – and especially the importance of the dedicated teacher – and draws the conclusion that the serious attitude taken by the community towards the education of its young is of more consequence than physical facilities and financial resources, however bountiful. The author augments his thesis with numerous quotes made by educational philosophers down the centuries, from Plato and Dante, to Dickens and Mark Twain.

158 pages, Paperback

Published June 20, 2019