Students Deserve Better

"If we describe college courses as mainly delivery mechanisms for skills to please a future employer, if we imply that history, literature and linguistics are more or less interchangeable 'content' that convey the same mental tools, we oversimplify the intellectual complexity that makes a university education worthwhile in the first place. We end up using the language of the capitalist marketplace and speak to our students as customers rather than fellow thinkers."

Molly Worthen at Kingnews argues that "[a]ssessment culture is dumbing down universities."

And Ron Srigley at the Los Angeles Review of Books laments that "[a]dministrators control the modern university."