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The main problem with thinking of education as a service industry is that I
can think of no other service where the quality of the service is almost
totally determined by the provider rather than the customer (no matter if
you think the customer is the student or the company that hires him or her,
or the tax payer). For better or worse, we, as "providers" set standards
and monitor our own quality. I really don't see how it can be otherwise.
Supposidly we are the most knowledgible about our particualr subject and
therefor best capable of determining what someone else (students) needs to
know about that subject and I don't see a way around that.
Roger A. Pruitt
I agree with Karl and Allen, the closest a buisness model comes to applying
to education is as a contract between teacher and student; formed to
participate in something similar to a fitness center where the teacher
provides equipment and coaching and the student does the work. In the
contract idea, however, I don't see any way to break the contract if the
student does everything in the contract and still just isn't cut out to do
physics. We do not give an A for effort. Likewise I don't see coaches in a
gym telling clients that they aren't preforming well enough and they should
quit. Sometimes as teachers we have to do that because WE are the ones who
determine quality.
kyle
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