MOOCs are good at certain things and terrible at others, and we need to understand the difference if we wish to educate human beings, not just workers with credentials.
If our ultimate goal is to educate human beings, then we must focus not only on knowledge and information, discipline and surveillance as measured by tests, but also on non-academic pleasures, motivations, skills, and the full array of human engagement that sustains attention and meaning.
But America no longer seeks to educate thinking, feeling, human beings.
The NCH promises excellent personal support, tutors who are committed to teaching, and the chance to be educated as a human being rather than a number.
If in the past, the adult education was specific to academic environment, nowadays this educational term covers most social groups as a consequence of the ability of human beings to be educated.
By creating millions of networked people, financially exploited but with the whole of human intelligence one thumb-swipe away, info-capitalism has created a new agent of change in history: the educated and connected human being...
Executive producer and Disney CEO John Lasseter explained to The New York Times, "The challenge is that you want to make Rapunzel feel like a smart, clever, educated, healthy, fun human being -- who has never left a tower in 18 years".
Can human beings be preserved?
JOSÉ SARAMAGO'S latest novel takes its title from one of the most admired passages in Plato's "Republic," when Socrates compares human beings, whether educated or ignorant, to dwellers in a subterranean cavern.
We are human beings - educated and trained does not exempt us from infallibility".
