lets build a quality school kredit
Picture the students in a required academic class at a randomly selected secondary school
as a gang of street repair workers.
If they were working as hard as the students do in class,
half or more would be leaning on their shovels, smoking,
and socializing, perfectly content to let the others to do the work.
Of those who were working, few would be working hard and it is likely that
none would be doing high-quality work.
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It is apparent, however, that students have thought about quality
and have a good idea of what in their school, is considered
QUALITY
I have talked at length to groups of high school students
about this subject, and most of them see quality in
athletics, music and drama,
a few see it in advanced placement academics or shop classes, but almost none see it in
REGULAR CLASSES.
While they believe they are capable of doing quality work in class, all but a very few admit that they
have never done it and have no plans to do it in the future.
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Here is the solution
QUALITY EDUCATION
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but if quality education is what we need, does it make much difference whether a student stays
in school and 'leans on his shovel' or drops out and 'lean on his shovel'?
For me, its maybe the time for us to look for the example of organizations
in which almost all workers are working hard and
doing a quality job and
try to apply to the schools what the managers in these places are doing?
Although not widely known or applied in our country YET, there are far better management practices than most school managers know about.
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Yeah!
Now we get to learn something as well as in today's competitive world,
only organizations whose products
and services are high quality thrive, and our schools are far from thriving.
Lets guess who is the man who taught managers to manage
so that almost all workers do high-quality work.........
jeng jeng
its ....
[Quoting from Dr Myron Tribus]
"The man who taught the Japanese to achieve high quality at low-cost (after World War II) is an American, Dr. W.Edwards Deming...
The Japanese faced and 'export and die' situation. They
had a reputation for shoddy products...
But... the situation change after MacArthur government,
they located Dr Deming, and he proceeded
to teach them the methods rejected by our managers.
The rest is history."
What the history tells us actually?
Its about the Japanese workers,
led by managers trained by Dr Deming, for the first time
in modern history made very high-quality products.
What's the proof?
The automobiles and electronics made in Japan
are most available at a price the average person could afford.
Given the opportunity to get high quality for the same price as low quality,
consumers are stampeding toward "made in Japan", and the result is that
Japan is now one of the world's richest countries.
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And now after many years Dr. Deming introduced his ideas
so successfully in Japan,
some people have become critical of both
how the Japanese now manage and of American managers
who claim to be using the same ideas.
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Our main point here is not about the Japanese or American ideas but
its about how we could apply such efficient system in our school and gain the quality works of our students.
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Because,
students are not only the workers in the school but they are also the products.
Believing that,
once they see that they themselves are gaining in quality,
they will make an effort to continue this option,
just as we continue to buy the quality products of Japan.
Therefore, what is the key for the excellent products 'made in Japan'?
....TO BE CONTINUE...
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