Subject: Re: Does this "formula" work?
From: Jay Malmstrom (malmstrm@qns.com)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 12:51:40 EDT
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.
>
My temptation would be to say no because so much of what goes into the last two
in the list are external to the instructor - the student controls much of what
happens outside the classroom. As a side note, I have noticed more and more
administrators trying to apply business models to the education process which
makes me very nervous.
Jay Malmstrom
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