CONTENTS

1. The End of Education Revisited

2. College Teaching and Its Discontents

3. Neuroscience Rides to the Rescue

4. The Limits of “Neuroeducation”

5. The End of Authority

6. My Stroke of Insight

7. A Well-Tempered Brain

8. A Fatal Attraction

9. Dumb and Dumber

10. …or a Neurosomatic Crisis?

11. The Pursuit of Overstimulation

12. …and Existential Disconnect

13. Unenlightened

14. Toward Edutopia?

15. The Last Oasis

Notes

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