on Fri, 5 Mar 1999 Hugh WILLMOTT wrote RE: Has`Critical Academic Work' Got
any Relevance for Students?
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>Does anyone else have any interest in this issue or suggestions about how to
>address it?
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on Fri, 5 Mar 1999 Richard Montgomery wrote Re: Has`Critical Academic Work'
Got any Relevance for Students?
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>In my opinion, the primary job of education is to teach students "to
>solve problems". All business management is essentially problem-solving,
>so you must provide techniques, show examples, and use lectures & cases
>to expose students to the science of problem-solving.
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>You cannot educate the students of 1999 to solve the problems of 2020.
>You can only equip them with the necessary tools.
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Gentlemen,
Consider two observations.
1) Einstein pointed out that to solve our problems we will have to operate
at a level of consciousness higher than the one we were in when we caused
the problems.
2) Management educators, when they descend to the "how to" level of
managing, have to change their curricula about every ten years -- and
still don't have it right.
So don't see your students as your "customers" but as your patients.
Then remember that in pedagogy, as in medicine, prescription without
diagnosis is also malpractice.
Then teach them how to stay well -- to think and to plan.
As Phil Crosby said, "Better you should avoid the quicksand than get a good
deal on a towing contract."
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