I had a great conversation today with a local Tech Guru and Educator, Ken Arnold, talking about education, society, budgets, long term planning, and students. So many things that are broken in the educational system, and at the same time, so many things that we could really do to quite literally change the world for the better right now.
In driving back, I did some thinking and came up with a thought: Educational Institutions - weather public schools, private universities, technical institutes or community colleges should all be graded on the return of investment that their pupils experience that is due to the education that institution provided them.
This needs to be systemic - colleges that are promoting a degree in a field that is already flooded, and so jobs are either not available locally, or the wage has been driven down to an unworkable level, have failed in their duty to provide a return on the students investment. Even if they have educated the pupil, they have failed in the higher goal of promoting their students to a better position in life, a return on the investment of money, time, and opportunity that the students have (and in many cases, will continue to) paid.
Any educational institution that measures its success by its investors return on investment, instead of its students return on investment is totally missing the mark, and I would argue is only being a leach on society.
No comments:
Post a Comment