Learning outcomes miss the point of higher education

The French thinker Simone Weil’s focus on teaching students to attend to reality is crucial in the social media age, writes Robert Zaretsky

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March 29, 2018

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Reader's comments (1)

#1 Submitted by squash123 on March 14, 2019 - 12:46am

While it is nice to read this piece on Weil, i was hoping for a legit critique of learning outcomes

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