See, take this MBA-style thinking, right? It’s the problem with Ed policy right now. There’s this intrinsically paternalistic view of problems that are much more complex than that.
MBA = Masters of Business Administration. Standard training for "people that want to run big companies".
And basically it's the teaching that people are _only_ interested in external rewards (like money), and therefore you have to constantly watch/grade them, in order to make sure that they're living up to the reward you're offering them.
As opposed to the belief that people are internally rewarded (by, y'know, a sense of achievement), and that constantly grading them means they spend less time working, and work to the criteria you set rather than what's actually useful.
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Can someone explain what this bit means?
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And basically it's the teaching that people are _only_ interested in external rewards (like money), and therefore you have to constantly watch/grade them, in order to make sure that they're living up to the reward you're offering them.
As opposed to the belief that people are internally rewarded (by, y'know, a sense of achievement), and that constantly grading them means they spend less time working, and work to the criteria you set rather than what's actually useful.
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