<The End of Average> Book No# 23

평균의 잣대로 설계된 현대 사회의 폐해에 대해 일깨워주는 교육학자 Todd Rose의 책. 

평균, 혹은 그 이상을 쫓는 삶이 아닌 나를 찾자. 

 

- For Thorndike, the purpose of schools was not to educate all students to the same levle, but to sort them, according to their innate level of talent. It is deeply ironic that one of the most influential people in the history of educaiton believed that education could do little to change a student's abilities and was therefore limited to identifying those students born with a superior braiun - and those born with an inferior brain. - p.54

 

- The first point  is rooted in a powerful concept from the mathematics of complex systems called equifinality. According to equifinality, in any multidimensional system that involves changes over time - like a person interacting with the world - there are always multiple ways to get from point A to point B. - p.129

 

- One of the ways Costco invests in its employees is by giving them power over their career pathway. Management helps employees develop whatever skills they think may be useful for the company and encourages them to explore job openings at Costco, even for positions in departments much different from their present one. Costco backs up this commitment to employee self-determination by promoting heavily from within the organizaiton. More than 70 percent of Costco's managers started out pusing carts or working behind a register. - p.150 

 

- He lacked any background in computer science, did poorly in school, and many in his own family expected that he would "not amount to much." But Vembu gave him a chance. "He learned how tp program, and he turned into a terrific programmer. - p,154

 

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