Is Your School a Factory?

I recommend this thought-provoking article entitled, "The Global War on Taylorism." written by R. J. O'Hara for the Collegiate Way.

Here is an excerpt from the article that I hope will entice you to read it and ponder its implications and how we can do better by our students:

This very idea has appeared here many times. We have seen Michael Buckley, for example, drawing on John Henry Newman, seek to restore the interpersonal in higher education through residential colleges: “One does not need a university for books; they can be found at home and in libraries. But one does need a university to have a congress of teachers…. What the university uniquely gives—as a library cannot—is the personal interchange and influence of great teachers.” And we shouldn’t be surprised to find Newman himself an anti-Taylorist before Taylor: a university, he famously wrote, is an alma mater, not a foundry, or a mint, or a treadmill!

You can read the article at: http://collegiateway.org/news/2008-gwot