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The world no longer responds to thinking marked by...

...muliple choice, true/false, and short answers.  For higher education to expect this of its graduates is to do them a disservice.

I'm reminded here of a line attributed to the Nobel Laureate, Paul Samuelson; “There is no substitute for paying attention to the empirical facts of life, and no substitute for systematic reasoning about them.”

Posted on Saturday, January 23, 2016 at 11:14AM by Registered CommenterJames Drogan | CommentsPost a Comment

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