CARL BOGARDUS spoke of Re: exit exam??? to DAN TRIPLETT on 12-27-96
CB> DT> Education is different
CB> DT> Kids are not products....they are not for sale.....and for many 
CB> DT> reasons...regardless of the same "quality" on the production 
CB> DT> line....kids come out the other end very different 
CB> DT> from a manufactured 
CB> DT> good.  I am not a producer of a "thing."  I am an educator of an
CB> DT> individual.  Things on the assembly line or 
CB> DT> production line don't have 
CB> DT> feelings...they don't come from abusive home 
CB> DT> situations....or from good 
CB> DT> families...or whatever......Education is different 
CB> DT> because human beings 
CB> DT> are different......
CB>Your comment to Matt above---
CB> 
CB>Correct, yet we can build quality into the process of education so
CB>that each child's education (the product) is at the highest quality
CB>possible.
That sounds good to me......but I don't like the comparison of graduates
to factory products (or any product) at the end of an assembly line.  I 
believe that education has progressed far beyond that kind of thinking. 
Perhaps I have missed something in the analogy.  I do like the idea of 
quality education (but what do we mean when we say that?).   
Take care,
Dan
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