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The recommended change was radical: the environments needed to fit the individual rather than the average.

Todd Rose • The End of Average

harnessing his individuality,

Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment

As the education scholar Todd Rose writes in The End of Average, this system is built upon “the paradoxical assumption that you could understand individuals by ignoring their individuality.”

David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America

Any system designed around the average person is doomed to fail.

Todd Rose • The End of Average

Human potential is nowhere near as limited as the systems we have put in place assume. We just need the tools to understand each person as an individual, not as a data point on a bell curve.

Todd Rose • The End of Average

Molenaar recognized that the fatal flaw of averagarianism was its paradoxical assumption that you could understand individuals by ignoring their individuality.

Todd Rose • The End of Average

What if new technologies could allow us to understand the varied backgrounds, goals, and learning styles of our students—and provide educational material customized to their unique needs? What if we could deliver education to students via on-demand platforms that allowed them to study whenever, wherever, and whatever they desired, instead of requir... See more

Michael D. Smith • Are Universities Going the Way of CDs and Cable TV?

How can a society predicated on the conviction that individuals can only be evaluated in reference to the average ever create the conditions for understanding and harnessing individuality?

Todd Rose • The End of Average

there were severe limits on how many students a brick-and-mortar institution could physically accommodate.