I encountered this wonderful article called Jailbreaking the Degree by David Blake. Reflecting on my own past as a student and the brief experience in teaching, I cannot agree more with the article.
The article used an analogy between taking courses and downloading digital songs in iTune. Whereas purchases on digital albums have increased smoothly to 104,800,000, purchases on digital singles have rocketed to 1,306,200,000 since 2004. The author argues...