That's fast thinking

[andrewducker]

I wouldn't be able to answer a question like that off the cuff.

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[spacelem.livejournal.com]

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.

Can someone explain what this bit means?

[andrewducker]

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.

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks. I don't mind admitting my ignorance with that kind of jargon.