What is wrong with (higher) education?
Clark Quinn,
Learnlets,
Oct 22, 2020
Clark Quinn opines, "My short (and admittedly cheeky) statement about education is that they're wrong on two things, the curriculum and pedagogy, other than that they're fine." More specifically, he says, "Most universities aren't doing a good job of curriculum, focusing on knowledge instead of skills." And "Too often, it's still the 'information dump and knowledge test'. But even when that's right, making it truly meaningful for the learners is sadly neglected." The thing is, they way most people think of skills, I don't think educating for 'skills' is really very different than educating for 'knowledge'. Indeed, 'skills training' is just as often rote as teaching for content knowledge.
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