Exposes the faulty assumptions that underlie modern education in the areas of moral education, creativity, and intelligence, showing how these assumptions must be changed in order to produce an ecologically sustainable culture.

C. A. Bowers is Professor of Education in the School of Education at Portland State University and has written widely on education, modernity, and the ecological crisis. His most recent books include Elements of a Post-Liberal Theory of Education; The Cultural Dimensions of Educational Computing; Critical Essays on Education, Modernity, and the Recovery of the Ecological Imperative; and Education, Cultural Myths, and the Ecological Crisis: Toward Deep Changes, published by SUNY Press.