It used to be that seniority was the basis for advancement; ostensibly because age is supposed to confer experience and wisdom. Unfortunately, an honest and sober reality check will reveal that there’s no guarantee that age and seniority equate to greater competence, knowledge or wisdom. Seniority is not the basis for advancement Promotion and ...
Here’s a reportedly true story that both asserts the state of the work ethic in Trinidad and demonstrates the deft use of a sense of humor in a maddening situation. A woman - let’s call her Rachel - went into a public service office on her lunch hour to take care of a pressing matter. ...
Just listened to Diane Ravitch, the Research Prof. at New York University, talk about the perils of the current focus of test scores as the measure of how well America's children are being educated. Apart from the apparent shennanigans going on around manipulating test scores to meet Government standards, her assessment that the focus ...
I once had a teacher who was fond of sharing how he was constantly amused by the arrogance of people who thought that they could compete with him because they had some big degree from some big University; and (he noted) that degree was two or three decades old. His point being that ...