High Tech Blinders about Students and Purposes of Schooling
Perceptions of Student in 21st Century
The cartoon was originally run to satirize many professors’ narrow view of doctoral students as receptacles of information–note I did not say knowledge–whose single purpose in life was doing research. The student asinformation processing unit (IPU). If one aim of satire is to get people to laugh and then get them to think by inquiring further about what they are laughing about, then the cartoon fits–especially if I broaden its target to include K-12 schools and replace “most professors” with “most school reformers.”
Ardent reformers, including the current and past U.S. Presidents and their appointees, are determined in getting