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They say that golf isn't a contact sport. Not the way that we play it

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We need to develop people rather than process them.

Develop, Needs, People, Process
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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.

Average, Deserve, Kids, Selfish, Standpoint

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.

Average, Challenges, Everyday, Question, Require

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?

Actually, Average, Data, Discoveries, Discovery

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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Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.

Character, Contextualized, Jagged, Thinking, Uncomfortable
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