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“Best universities” according to which measure? I find it super difficult to come up with a hard set of criteria that measure the performance of an educational
by periheli0n 6y ago
“Best universities” according to which measure?
I find it super difficult to come up with a hard set of criteria that measure the performance of an educational institution. Number of graduates? Number of research papers published? Amount of grant income? Can all be gamed.
Strength of character and depth of personality of graduates would be a good metric, but is impossible to measure.
- PeterisP 6y agoArguably, "strength of character and depth of personality" is something inherent to the people, not something they get in or from a university. So if you could such a metric, it would reflect which university manages to attract the best highschoolers, not which university is best at educating them (i.e. which university is likely to improve you most should you choose to go there) or producing research results.
- periheli0n 6y agoI tend to disagree. Good universities (as well as other schools) feed students’ curiosity and sense of exploration. Bad ones just push them through an educational assembly line where they graduate at the end. The former boosts students’ self-confidence and personality development, the latter doesn’t.
- esjeon 6y ago> Can all be gamed. Yeah, it’s uncomfortable that often the fame comes before the actual quality, because they gamed it. But then there got to be a start. Self-PR is one major critical weapon in the country that pushes freedom to the maximum extent.
- periheli0n 6y agoBut how to tell if a university is really the best or just pretends to be?