John Connell: The Blog

Will Richard­son quotes Jeff Jarvis:

“Why should my son or daugh­ter have to pick a sin­gle col­lege and with it only the teach­ers and courses offered there?”

And:

“…why shouldn“t pro­fes­sors be able to pick their own stu­dents from among the best of the bunch, not just those from his or her institution?”

I hope I am not the only one who can see the dan­gers in this for young peo­ple from poorer back­grounds who already have the sys­tem weighted against them and who would in all prob­a­bil­ity fare even worse in a sit­u­a­tion such as the one described by Jeff.

I share, I believe, the core of Jeff’s vision, but I would also want to build in mech­a­nisms to pro­tect those who have no lever­age within the sys­tem as it stands. What would such mech­a­nisms look like? How would they work? Is it pos­si­ble to have our cake and eat it?

[Link to Jeff’s orig­i­nal post]

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