Like so much of the business world, the educational model of our system of higher education (and, just as important, its business model) is based on Taylorism.8 Our contemporary universities are caretakers of an averagarian system they inherited that enforces the conviction that the system is more important than the individual and compels the standardization of all educational processes. The shortcomings of our system—its costs and, most important, the gap between what graduates learn and their ability to get a job—are due to a deeply entrenched averagarian architecture that was established
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