universities and the CD syndrome 0
via acta online
powerful analogy between music stores and education by Kevin Carey at The Quick and the Ed
“…[Universities] set students loose in the equivalent of Tower Records, with instructions that amount to “Buy at least one CD from Rock/Pop, Jazz, Classical, Soul / R&B, Folk, and Country. Then pick one of those categories and buy 10 more CDs from that section, plus another 10 from that section or any others.
…In the information age, access is not an end in itself. And choice is very far from the self-evident virtue that it often is taken to be. Students drown in options if they don’t get proper guidance–and their educations suffer as a result. Information management is a skill we all need today–and colleges and universities have an obligation to structure undergraduate education to help students differentiate between courses they need and those they don’t.”
read the first blog link above for a captivating and thoughtful summary.
“As Bruce Springsteen would say, sometimes we learn “more from a three-minute record … than we ever learned in school.”…