"When consumers buy a product in a shop..."
"Students will be able to select their course knowing that, like the food in their fridge or the car on their drive..."
This is what the Universities Minister thinks education is: a product, to be bought & sold inews.co.uk/opinion/uk-uni…
"Students will be able to select their course knowing that, like the food in their fridge or the car on their drive..."
This is what the Universities Minister thinks education is: a product, to be bought & sold inews.co.uk/opinion/uk-uni…
Not every human experience can be reduced to a consumer transaction.
As I argued here, universities should be relentless in the pursuit of "value". But our "values" cannot always be set by the market.
As I argued here, universities should be relentless in the pursuit of "value". But our "values" cannot always be set by the market.
https://twitter.com/redhistorian/status/1180745262425358336?s=20
Perhaps we need a better idea of national "wealth", too? John Ruskin argued in 1860 that the opposite of "wealth" was "illth".
"Wealth" included all things that promoted the well-being of humanity, only some of which could be stored in money.
"Wealth" included all things that promoted the well-being of humanity, only some of which could be stored in money.
Not every criticism in this article is wrong. But the vision on which it rests - of education as a product, to be bought from a supplier like a fridge or a car; a transaction, to be "rated" against future earnings - is corrosive of everything for which a humane education stands.
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