"There is a tendency in universities today to think of teachers as, like sales people and politicians, interested in outcomes. And so there is a tendency for teachers to treat their students in the way sales people treat their clients and politicians treat the voters: without respect."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131088812
Yet, I do have a nagging question: can't we think of some disciplines in which teaching outcomes does matter greatly? Parts of medicine and engineering seem like that. In so far, as some of the sciences treat a body of knowledge (physics, chemistry, biology etc) and not a way of handling problems, maybe them, too?
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