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I Love Learning I Hate School
Susan D. Blum
An Anthropology of College
Cornell University Press
March 2016
On Sale: March 19, 2016
356 pages
ISBN: 1501700219
EAN: 9781501700217
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Philosphy | Non-Fiction
Frustrated by her students' performance, her relationships
with them, and her own daughter’s problems in school, Susan
D. Blum, a professor of anthropology, set out to understand
why her students found their educational experience at a
top-tier institution so profoundly difficult and
unsatisfying. Through her research and in conversations with
her students, she discovered a troubling mismatch between
the goals of the university and the needs of
students. In "I Love Learning; I Hate
School," Blum tells two intertwined but inseparable
stories: the results of her research into how students learn
contrasted with the way conventional education works, and
the personal narrative of how she herself was transformed by
this understanding. Blum concludes that the dominant forms
of higher education do not match the myriad forms of
learning that help students―people in general―master
meaningful and worthwhile skills and knowledge. Students are
capable of learning huge amounts, but the ways higher
education is structured often leads them to fail to learn.
More than that, it leads to ill effects. In this critique of
higher education, infused with anthropological insights,
Blum explains why so much is going wrong and offers
suggestions for how to bring classroom learning more in line
with appropriate forms of engagement. She challenges our
system of education and argues for a “reintegration of
learning with life.”
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