{"id":2748,"date":"2018-10-02T14:10:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T18:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learning.richmond.edu\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2018-10-02T14:13:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T18:13:28","slug":"excellence-is-not-the-only-point-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/2018\/10\/02\/excellence-is-not-the-only-point-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellence is not the only point of education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/excellence-is-not-the-only-point-of-education-38148\">Sam Carr\u2019s article<\/a> explores the toxic relationship between the corporate mentality and education. In his opinion, focusing education purely on the pursuit of excellence in its current construction has negatively affected both young people and educators. In his words, \u201cteaching is an art, as is learning, research, and the production of knowledge.\u201d Excellence in its current form does not account for excellent learning or teaching conditions and Carr motivates his readers to revolt against this system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Carr\u2019s article explores the toxic relationship between the corporate mentality and education. In his opinion, focusing education purely on the pursuit of excellence in its current construction has negatively affected both young people and educators. In his words, \u201cteaching is an art, as is learning, research, and the production of knowledge.\u201d Excellence in its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-and-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}