By fortuitous coincidence, just as I read this email, I was throwing away a letter from the President of the College where I teach. The reason I had kept the letter, which welcomed all the faculty back at the start of fall semester, was her hope that with extensive strategic planning:
"We will achieve the vision of a primer learner centered institution."After a quick full stop trying to determine if we were going to go backwards, offering the primary school grades and using primers to teach reading and writing, I remained confused. It wasn't just a missing "e" or even an inability to create perfectly respectable French characters using MS Word. How does one "achieve" a vision? What does it mean to "center" a college on the learner? Does it mean that learners know best what they don't know? Does it mean that learners should set the agenda and content of courses before they learn the content of those courses?
Sometimes it doesn't pay to get upset over such obvious indignities, but one must occasionally vent in order to stay human.
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