#1Mario A Núñez said ...(on 03-28-2008)

Leer este escrito que nos recomienda Powers ha sido iluminador: http://www.mla.org/fromthepres :

When I served on college admissions committees in the 1990s, a phrase that kept coming up was "the best students," in comments like "We've got to get the best students" or "Rival College X down the road is beating us out for the best students." I came to think of the mentality behind these comments as the Best-Student Fetish, a symptom of the increasingly obsessive competition among colleges for the cream of the high school senior crop. The more I thought about the Best-Student Fetish, the more perverse its logic seemed: it is as if the ultimate dream of college admissions is to recruit a student body that is already so well educated that it hardly needs any instruction! Sitting in admissions committee meetings, it was all I could do not to ask, "Hey, why don't we recruit bad students and see if we can actually teach them something?"

Enseñarle a los mejores estudiantes no es un reto. Esos necesitan poco de nuestra ayuda. Tal vez nuestra Universidad debe dejar la obsesión con reclutar los mejores estudiantes y llegar a otros grupos que necesitan más de nuestra ayuda.