I truly enjoyed how Mark opened up today’s class with an intriguing question of what makes a ‘good education’? Education is a universal right for each human being to elevate their own knowledge, skills, and qualities so that they can function in a society. There are issues that require a problem-solving thinking and challenges in the future that need to be addressed by somebody who can make any sense out of it.
But then he introduced the notion of credentialism, which argued that recently education function itself only to provide legitimacy for the graduates to trade and to demand a higher pay in the job market. He continued with an article which shows that universities around the world are facing a phenomenon called ‘grade inflation‘ where graduating with distinction has becoming an ordinary thing in our society. Does it means that the lecturers has become more advanced in teaching, and the students are now better at learning subjects? What if we take the Con out of our diploma, would that even matter?
selikurdirham 