Education System Of Ages

Today's Doonesbury comic so brilliantly sums up my teaching experience in Turkey as well as the direction of education for the wealthy. My favorite is panel 6.

True, I hadn't been teaching in university, but the end result was nearly the same: a school where the point of education was to placate students and parents (and retain their tuition for the following year). Real learning and growth wasn't nearly as important as the appearance that learning and growth were taking place. Who knows what kind of world it will be when the students from that system enter the workforce. Good job, for-profit education!