As I was reading the Woodford, the thing that stuck with me is when he states, “Public schools and universities were blamed by the New Right for regional or national economics reverse because they failed to equip students with the requisite knowledge, skills, and attitudes to allow business to successfully compete in the global market place. Seldom , if ever, were those same institutions given credit when the economy was healthy” (Woodford 61). I think that this is a major problem in more than just the schools. It is so easy to criticize and complain, and there seems to be this large burden of complimenting. Why is it that the bad things are the things that stick out?
Another thing that stuck out to me was when Woodford was talking about the type of students the school are producing. The type of student that acts more mathematically and such. I can’t help but think that this is because of the day in age we are living in with all of the technology we have. The technology requires people to be able to be a “step ahead” of it all.
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I think the reason people accentuate the bad is because it makes people angry, and when people get angry, people want to do something about it. Its very backwards to a positive attitude. Maybe when people hear that things are going well they see no reason to act or to "See a problem." People are always looking for a problem to fix.
I'm glad you mention technology :)
My view on technology is not that it requires people to be a step ahead of it all but it allows people to have extreme convenience at their disposal, it's a similar problem to only talking about the problems. People get too caught up with new features or upgrades when what they have is still really advanced technology and they can do just fine to wait until it's lived past it's shelf life to finally upgrade to something new. There's a strange competition in consumers to be a "step ahead" of everyone else and have the newest, fastest, bestest.
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