What's really going on is the outsourcing of the educatonal experience to for-profit corporations that provide testing and technical tools—sometimes excellent, sometimes badly flawed—to those involved in education.
What's being lost is the human dimension, a key to elucidation, inquiry, informed thought and education since, well, Jesus and Socrates, to name only two. Larry Bensky ---------- Yes, of course. It's like they've finally understood the lesson of the Wizard of Oz. It's the diploma that matters. That's what people pay for. In the sciences, what this means, is that people who can afford tutors will learn something; and those who can't won't. In the humanities, what this means, is that people will go through the motions. I'm of two minds about the outcome. On the one hand the whole edifice of western culture as shaped by institutions of learning is being torn down piece by piece, leaving only naked power and privilege. This actually makes the ruling class stupider and their status less justifiable as a meritocracy. On the other hand, this opens a space where we could be teaching one another, learning together, perhaps even starting to create collaborative unions of teachers who, perhaps, get to side step the institutions and give their own diplomas. That would be interesting. It would require academic types to work together..... You never know. Joanna
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