Subject: Re: Does this "formula" work?
From: Al Roy (aroy@bristol.mass.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 09:17:40 EDT
Yes, student effort is the all important factor. Education is an enterprise
in which the cusumers manufacture their own product. That is,in education,
the students educate themselves using their own intelligence, ingenuity,
drive and the opportunities available to them at their chosen college.
That's the way it is, has always been and probably will always be.
Thank you for 'philosophizing'.
Keep the Faith
At 07:16 PM 04/28/2000 -0400, Bret Taylor wrote:
>I'm just philosophizing here.
>
>Several years ago I heard a quote from some "business guru." Sorry, I don't
>remember who. He said in oder for a business to succeed the basic principle
>was simple: Quality, price, service; choose any two.
>
>Well, is the following principle true in education (especially for an
>open-door institution): Standards, effort, success rate; choose any two.
>
>My point is, it is easy to get high success rates if you have either high
>effort from students or low standards from the institution. But, do many
>schools try and figure out how to have high standards and high success rates
>while settling for low effort?
>
>Just curious.
>
>
>Bret Taylor Lake-Sumter Community College Leesburg, FL John 3:30
>
>It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves.
>What matters more, yes, most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.
> John Wooden, UCLA
>
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