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Kohn, Alfie – Educational Leadership, 1993
The introduction of Total Quality Management into the classroom is often driven by corporate, rather than student, interests. Corporations'"raison d'etre" is to maximize profit for their investors. If educators look at students and see only future employees, they distort learning by reducing it to fiscal terms and ignore what children…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Competition, Conflict of Interest, Critical Thinking
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Kohn, Alfie – Educational Leadership, 1993
Before jumping on another corporate bandwagon, educators should recall the primary difference between business and education. Workers produce consumer goods, whereas students should be concerned with constructing meaning. The marketplace model, even correctly applied, does not belong in the classroom. Total Quality Management is a content-free,…
Descriptors: Competition, Education Work Relationship, Educational Objectives, Educational Quality