More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College Is Crap, and Idiots Think They're Right

by Laura Penny

Book Overview

One of Canada's funniest and most incisive social critics reveals why in North America, where governments spend so much on schools and colleges, training is valued far more than education and loud-mouth ignoramuses are widely and publicly celebrated. Public education in the United States is in such pitiful shape, the president wants to replace it. Test results from Canadian public schools indicate that Canadian students are at least better at taking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771070489
• ISBN13: 9780771070488
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.3"