Title: Cultural Literacy - Knowledge isn't Facts
Review: Hirsch make many mistakes in his book, some omission, some of commission. Perhaps the most troubling is his notion that facts are knowledge. That is not a useful idea for anyone involved in education.A core problem in our culture are books of lists. The curriculum, for the most part, is a mile wide and an inch deep. Hirsch's book does little about this, and in fact exacerbates the problem. Murray Gell-Mann, a scientist at MIT once remarked that, "education in the United States is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant and being fed the menu." The Hirsch book helps cultivate a taste for menus.
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