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Sztajn, Paola – Educational Leadership, 1992
Applying Deming's principles to education represents change in metaphor, not paradigm shift. Exchanging factory metaphor for enlightened corporation metaphor updates business/economics image but perpetuates view of students as raw materials to be processed efficiently. No business metaphor truly aims at improving society as a whole. If production…
Descriptors: Art, Beliefs, Business, Efficiency