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With an increasing demand for masters, their supply should also increase. As the schoolmaster vanishes, conditions will arise which should bring forth the vocation of the independent educator.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
Germany’s compulsory education system expressed six outcomes in its original syllabus documents:
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More.
Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
We are mindful of the dangers of high welfare and unemployment benefits, watching the consequences of this compassionate policy on the job-seeking habits of the unemployed. Visiting the major cities of the industrial countries, I am struck by this curious phenomena of high unemployment and yet a shortage of waiters, cab drivers, nurses and garbage
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“Professors who excel at promoting contemporaneous student achievement,” the economists wrote, “on average, harm the subsequent performance of their students in more advanced classes.”
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
Another study has shown that low maternal education is the single most powerful factor leading to criminality.
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
when inequality will rise: when the rate of return on capital is higher than economic growth,
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
Lausanne business school showed that