Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential. - L. Todd Rose

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English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.

L. Todd Rose

Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.

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Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic standpoint, is we're not producing the talent we need.

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We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average - are everyday speech. We don't even question the language, although the challenges we face require a different mindset.

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That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?

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We need to develop people rather than process them.

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It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.

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