Robert J. MacG. Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> (2) _Why_ were even the best schools expected to improve, with targets
> that seem to have been overambitious?? I would hazard a guess that it
> might be due to an inappropriate overgeneralization of the philosophy -
> appropriate, in an eduational context, for individual students - that
> progress should constantly be being made.
Continual Growth is the state religion. If you're not "growing"
you're falling behind. In business, there is no such thing anymore
as a "reasonable return" . Nowadays, there is in it's stead the
mantra of a reasonable rate of growth of the rate of return.
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