I hope you find the following quotes about education, innovation, and transformation as inspiring, cutting, or controversial as I do. I hope they parlay into great arguments, excellent debates, and help you weave a tapestry of ideas that have meaning and importance to what academia is supposed to do. Enjoy.
Quarantinotes Series #9 – One of These Things is Not Like the Other
Education is one of the last cultural bastions of one-size-fits-all in delivery and assessment as we seek out students who are “average”, just as we seek those “above average” and “below average.” Our entire infrastructure is based on grading students up and down, based on how they “compare” to other students.
Lying With Data Is Easy – Telling The Truth Without It Is Hard
Data has just danced around the edges of usefulness for most colleges and universities over time. We have MOUNDS of data, right? We have historical data going back decades. Granted, it’s mostly on paper, in cabinets, locked away in a storage room we only open every seven years, brushing off dust and cobwebs like an Indiana Jones film so as to cherry pick the best data to show accreditors…but it’s there.