Charles Handy article on how conventional education does not prepare students or future employees for answers to open-ended questions, and how apprenticeships, especially for managers, are most important for education. Handy begins the article discussing an encyclopedia collection and how it only serves as a reference book for academics, rather than being intended for the busy manager. He proceeds to note how such books assume the primacy of information and factual knowledge as a source of effectiveness, stating that this problematic because it does not follow that more information is necessarily better information, and how the education system reproduces an emphasis on close-ended questions that do not allow for open, critical thinking. Handy goes on to extend such a view of education to, specifically, business education, arguing that one cannot learn to be a manager in a classroom because management has mostly to do with open-ended problems. He concludes the article reflecting on schooling, stating that children should spend part of their schooling in the real world, with apprentice-masters drawn from business and the community.
Handy, Charles B Handy, Elizabeth Warner, Malcolm Judge Institute of Management Studies Management today series Judges, Rob Encyclopedias Lotus Notes Apprenticeship programs Apprentices International encyclopedia of business and management handbook series Primary education (Great Britain)
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Charles Handy article on how conventional education does not prepare students or future employees for answers to open-ended questions, and how apprenticeships, especially for managers, are most important for education, 1996; Charles Handy Papers; Box 20, Folder 11; 1 page
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