How long does it take to read Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning?
an approach to distinctively Christian education
Douglas Wilson
Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning by Douglas Wilson takes about 3 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 57 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1991. 215 pages, about 59,125 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Public education in America has run into hard times. Even many within the system admit that it is failing. While many factors contribute, Douglas Wilson lays much blame on the idea that education can take place in a moral vacuum. It is not possible for education to be nonreligious, deliberately excluding the basic questions about life. All education builds on the foundations of someone's worldview (teacher's, curriculum writer's). Education deals with fundamental questions that require religous answers. Learning to read and write is simply the process of acquiring the tools to ask and answer such questions. A second reason for the failure of public schools, Wilson feels, is modern teaching methods. He argues for a return to a classical education, firm discipline, and the requirement of hard work. Often educational reforms create new problems that must be solved down the road. This book presents alternatives that have proved workable in experience. - Back cover.
Subjects: Aims and objectives, Christian ethics, Study and teaching, Moral education, Education, School improvement programs
