Re: [Fwd: The product of education]

[WyoCheek@aol.com]

DEN

I believe "the output product" is education quality, recognizing variation 
will always exist in educated students, and all people (organizations they 
also represent) have a role as suppliers and customers in the system. It 
places the issue "by what method" the system should be managed to achieve the 
aim of quality closer to the issue- pointed in direct relationship to the 
question to be answered which is "What is Quality? What do we mean by 
quality" Certainly Deming's defintion applies here--"Quality is something the 
customer tries to buy, at a price they are willing to pay."  
We can have high quality at high cost, and generally I think we believe we 
have long been in a serious education crisis refected by low quality at 
continual higher costs. I suggest the aim of education quality should first 
be high quality at continual lower cost. I believe higher education and 
subsequently K12 have failed to recognize teachers are first managers who may 
or may not then as subject matter experts (when funding are low, a hack may 
actually be required to teach a class by the administration--after all how 
would the kids know or even parents) come with teaching skills and only to a 
point can these be improved. Therefore when we look at an educator, we can 
look at all these areas: management, subject matter knowledge, and teaching 
skills and how determine if any improvement is required and relative to 
combined whole person--his/her personality.