FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, NOVEMBER 1996

Copyright © 1995 by Neil Postman

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1995.

The Library of Congress has catalogued the Knopf edition as follows:
Postman, Neil.
The end of education: redefining the value of school / Neil
Postman.—1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-79720-9
1. Education—United States. 2. Educational change—United States. 3. Education—United States—Aims and objectives. I.
Title.
LA217.2.P67 1995
370′.973–dc20 94-46605

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