http://teachingthursday.org/2009/09/24/the-cost-of-cheap-education-another-view/ A Teaching Blog from the University of North Dakota Office of Instructional Development Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:49:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://teachingthursday.org/2009/09/24/the-cost-of-cheap-education-another-view/#comment-101 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:00:28 +0000 http://teachingthursday.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/the-cost-of-cheap-education-another-view/#comment-101 [...] agree with the argument presented by Bill Caraher, Anne Kelsher, and John Tagg that these less expensive models of higher education pose a [...]

]]> http://teachingthursday.org/2009/09/24/the-cost-of-cheap-education-another-view/#comment-98 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:30:54 +0000 http://teachingthursday.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/the-cost-of-cheap-education-another-view/#comment-98 Dr. Caraher: Your comments begins with a nod toward “higher education.” What is this thing to be? Is not “higher” education to emphasize literature and history in order to teach people how to think, to understand who they are and where they came from so that they can thoughtfully figure out where they are going? Education has many facets but higher education appears to have been so diluted as to have lost its way. Why do professors bemoan the quality and interest of students almost universally? In democraticizing the idea of education, has not the idea of “higher” been erased? We can delineate varieties of education adn varieties of institutions and preserve this ideal. — I am not sure but that this may mean I agree with you? No need to post this since I didn’t spend the appropriate amount of time reading all in this blog.

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