Coming Apart

Praise for Real Education and Charles Murray: "Real Education is a radical book in the true sense of the word--it penetrates to the root of our largely ineffective and overly costly educational system." --George Leef, Pope Center for Higher Education Policy Online "It is astonishing to see 200 pages of plain common sense written about education, a topic I had thought long since drowned deep beneath an ocean of nonsense, venality, and lies." --National Review Online "Bold and thought-provoking...by directing his argument toward the people least likely to be sympathetic to it, Charles Murray has once again demonstrated two of the greatest advantages of successful education: independence of thought and the courage to articulate unpopular opinions in the service of truth." --The New Criterion "Mr. Murray takes a moral sledgehammer to our one-size-fits-all education mind-set...Mr. Murray's primary purpose is to rattle our thinking. He indicts current policy because it represents conventional thinking, the romanticism that permeates our education system" --Washington Times "Controversial but well researched...highly recommended for public and academic libraries." --Library Journal "Charles Murray has written a bracing book about education, one determined not only to upset apple carts, but explode them. In varied ways he has succeeded, and for that we should be thankful...Murray's diagnosis of America's everyone-to-college romanticism is spot on." --The Weekly Standard "The most talked-about education book this semester." --New York Times "Murray's characteristically lucid analysis...raises troubling questions about the comforting lies we tell ourselves about the meritocratic structure of American society...The "four simple truths" alluded to in Murray's subtitle are undoubtedly both simple and true, but even in private conversations they are usually only whispered...Murray's realism is refreshing." --The American Conservative