Glen Hirshberg's Blog - Posts Tagged "impersonalism"
Politics of Education
With a simple substitution of the word "education" for the word "politics" in this November 4th column by David Brooks (a less-than-typical partner in thought, for me) in the NYTIMES, one arrives at a pretty fair summation of what's wrong with BOTH the education reform movement and the status quo in American schools at this particular moment: "Data-driven [education] is built on a philosophy you might call Impersonalism. This is the belief that what matters in [education] is the reaction of populations and not the idiosyncratic judgment, moral character or creativity of individuals."
And one more, using the same technique, from the same article: "At heart, [education] is a personal enterprise. [Students] are looking for a quality of leadership, character, vision and solidarity that defies quantification."
It's people that count, in other words. Not counting people.
And one more, using the same technique, from the same article: "At heart, [education] is a personal enterprise. [Students] are looking for a quality of leadership, character, vision and solidarity that defies quantification."
It's people that count, in other words. Not counting people.
