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The Saber-Tooth Curriculum, Classic Edition

3 reviews
Abner J Peddiwell

McGraw-Hill, 2004

Still relevant, still unique nearly 70 years later
I doubt THE SABER-TOOTH CURRICULUM would be produced today, a sad commentary on our times. No contemporary publisher would distribute the first edition to educators for the sake of discourse and no doubt a little shrewd marketing like McGraw did in the late 1930s, and no pointed but whimsical and very funny satire on pedagogical history in the age of theory rendered in opaque language would get ...

The Saber-Tooth Curriculum
J. Abner Peddiwell

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1939

The Saber-Tooth Curriculum

5 reviews
J.A. Peddiwell

McGraw-Hill Companies, 1959

Witty, Caustic, and Creative Indictment of Academia
This book is in the form of a narrative dialogue between a professor and a former student in a Tijuana bar over the course of a few days. This bar in Tijuanna is the last place the former student (now a failing salesman) expected to find the straight-laced processor slamming tequilla shots and lecturing on the "History of Paleothic Education". The professor's lectures explore the reasons why ...