Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Business Education

Photon Courier discussed an interesting new book in this post:

MANAGEMENT EDUCATION AND THE ROLE OF TECHNIQUE

PC makes an astute point:

This critique of an excessive reliance on contextless technique in business is, I believe, also applicable to the current excessive dominance of "theory"--ie, specific techniques for things like textual criticism--in the teaching of the humanities.

See also:

Clausewitz

Knowingness

Military education and business

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