Hi Nick. Take a seat. Thanks for coming. How’s the family? Reindeers doing well? I heard Rudolph was nursing a cold. Hope he’s okay. Now, look the reason we’re meeting today is to review this year’s performance and is part of the new performance appraisal system we have set up.…
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“But what if effectiveness is part of a masquerade of social control rather than a reality? What if effectiveness were a quality widely imputed to managers and bureaucrats both by themselves and others, but in fact a quality which rarely exists apart from this imputation? The word that I shall…
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In most cases (particularly when the work to be done is intricate in its nature) the “development of the science” is the most important of the four great elements of the new management. There are instances, however, in which the “scientific selection of the workman” counts for more than anything…
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“Once charismatic qualification has become an impersonal quality, which can be transmitted through various and at first purely magic means, it has begun its transformation from a personal gift that can be tested and proven but not transmitted and acquired, into a capacity that, in principle, can be taught and…
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A good showman is a person that has a sense or knack for an effective presentation of an animal. Showmanship is the one area of exhibiting beef cattle over which you have the most control. In showmanship, you are judged on your abilities to control and present your steer or…
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“This being objected on all sides, it is agreed that it is a fault and an hindrance to knowledge. What now is the cure? No other but this, that every man should let alone others prejudices and examine his own. No body is convinced of his by the accusation of…
Jun 26 2016 / Comments Off on ‘Every one is forward to complain of the prejudices that mislead other men or parties, as if he were free, and had none of his own.’ / Read More »
Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore Sir Joseph Porter, KCB: When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an Attorney’s firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. Chorus: He polished up the…
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“The problem is well-documented, and there are no doubt many factors which make teaching a difficult activity to sustain for long.” “But it does often turn out that it is precisely the teachers we respect the most, those whose selfless dedication to making something happen for other people is an…
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“It is my sincere belief that new teachers who are aware of the organizational and societal contexts in which they must work and who understand the nature of their clients are better able to withstand the induction period of teaching and eventually participate in the reconceptualization of the profession.” Daniel…
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“Opening with the foreboding words, “Failed Theories, Famished Minds,” Hirsch explains, “What chiefly prompts the writing of this book is our national slowness . . . to cast aside [the] faulty theories that have led to the total absence of a coherent, knowledge-based curriculum, but are nonetheless presented . .…
Oct 4 2015 / Comments Off on On Why ‘The Schools We Need’ Have Never Been Progressive / Read More »Ball Bearings & The Scientific Selection of Workers
In most cases (particularly when the work to be done is intricate in its nature) the “development of the science”…
Nov 20 2016 / Comments Off on Ball Bearings & The Scientific Selection of Workers / Read More »Charismatic Qualities & Their Regeneration
Nov 20 2016 / Comments Off on Charismatic Qualities & Their Regeneration / Read More »Teach Like A Showman
Nov 20 2016 / Comments Off on Teach Like A Showman / Read More »“Stick close to your desks and never go to sea / … you all may be rulers of the Queen’s Navee”
Mar 9 2016 / Comments Off on “Stick close to your desks and never go to sea / … you all may be rulers of the Queen’s Navee” / Read More »Andreas Schleicher’s Very Special Education
Jun 28 2015 / Comments Off on Andreas Schleicher’s Very Special Education / Read More »‘Gove’s academies: 1980s idea rebranded?’ by Mike Baker
Jun 22 2015 / Comments Off on ‘Gove’s academies: 1980s idea rebranded?’ by Mike Baker / Read More »Lessons from London Schools, Self-Promotion and the Myth of Education Research
We were a little undecided as to whether or not to write this post because of the youthfulness of those…
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