Dat op universiteiten veel mis gaat is iedereen die ze nader bekijkt direct duidelijk. Maar dat is niet alleen te wijten aan het onbegrip van studenten, ook de wijze van werken brengt onnodige handicaps met zich mee. Dit interview met Prof. Thornbury richt zich vooral op dat laatste.

Professor Thornbury is president of a very different kind of school, The King’s College in Manhattan. He joins Jeff Deist to discuss everything wrong—and everything that could be right—with universities today. Dr. Thornbury’s prescriptions are radical: make education a la carte, offering a mix of degrees, certificates, and micro-certificates. Tailor programs to teach specific skills, and shorten the time undergraduates spend in school dramatically. Insist that all graduates have rigorous writing and public speaking skills. End the publishing model for academics, and replace it with a focus on classroom skills and open inquiry. Finally, make sure students still learn enough about history, philosophy, ethics, classics, languages, and rhetoric to navigate life beyond the digital world.

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Publicatie: 29 september