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Improving Education
By Gerhard Adam | September 28th 2009 07:11 PM | 3 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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A recent article entitled "Educators could learn a thing or two from the automotive industry, study finds" piqued my interest. 

"...explains how "Lean production" techniques have transformed the

automotive, construction, and service industries as well as healthcare

delivery."


I was hooked.  Clearly here was a model for education from some of the most successful, admired industries in the world.  I did notice that there wasn't much mention of the materials, curriculum, or the students themselves, but then why burden yourself with extraneous details.

Perhaps after these ideas are fully implemented, then our colleges and universities can stand in line to get their bail-out too.


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Jeff Sherry's picture
Doing more with less seems to be the new thinking in education. I would be fascinated by a how a model of the JIT, Continuous Improvement, Kaizen...etc. would work in an education setting. Would one just phone it in or wikki it? Demming would be proud if he was still with us.  

J Q | 09/28/09 | 19:37 PM
Gerhard Adam's picture
I suspect that the problem would be that most everything would be assessed by some testing, or short-term evaluation process.  Thereby creating the illusion of progress and failing miserably in level of understanding achieved.

No one wants to accept the fact that students can only learn when their parents set the example and value an education.  Everything else is fluff.

The most obvious question, is how well these techniques have actually worked in producing better cars, or providing better health-care. 

Gerhard Adam | 09/28/09 | 21:11 PM
Hank's picture
It's not a bad modus operandi.    Do inferior work but foment nationalism to keep you feeling relevant while fewer days are spent producing the product and then get the government to waste a lot of taxpayer money ... oh wait, we already do that in education.

Hank Campbell | 09/28/09 | 21:31 PM

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