Source: Maybe We’ve Been Thinking About the Productivity Slump All Wrong – The New York Times Here is what I wrote To paraphrase a politician, “It’s the education, stupid.” But, don’t we have the greatest universities in the world? Yes, but that doesn’t mean that those universities are doing anything to broadly disseminate knowledge. Our […]
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Maybe We’ve Been Thinking About the Productivity Slump All Wrong – The New York Times Me: You Betcha
July 26, 2017 by
From “Student Consumerism” to “Student Markism”
July 18, 2017 by
Clark Kerr famously noted a “…shift from academic merit to student consumerism…”. Since Kerr’s observation (1980) we have shifted from “students” as “consumers” to “students” as easy “marks”, as in a “mark” in a con game. (There are many reasons why so many of them are “easy marks”, but, see David Riesman’s view here.)
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