0812周日

真理堂的liang teammate邀請參加

讀一本Harvard University Press的書

Cambridge, Massachusetts

London, England

yy2天 新竹談陳善德project 問津堂買3書

讀Paz 詩 好玩的是博學

HC,

我喜歡玩接龍遊戲

受到你寫了這段文字的啟發

我接下去又加了一些文字如下，

讓你看看還可以 怎樣修改再來定稿

經鍾漢清先生等之提議，

敬獻本次品質論譠給

張忠樸先生（１９５0－２００２）

紀念他生前擇善固執、

化信心、希望與愛為生命、熱情與活力

投入學習、活用實驗

親自實踐、經營網頁與著書寫作之餘

並引導產業界致力於品質的持續改善

為台灣的品質的進展留下佳美的腳蹤。

How about it?

三呆

王老師 沒問題
KEEP IT SIMPLE 最好 否則有人會認為肉麻

London's Big Ben fell silent

Space Shuttle Endeavour and the STS-118 crew

虎子與"虎の子"

So a series of inevitable and accidental events sealed Nagasaki's fate.

on-site inspection

expected life 期望壽命；平均壽命：平均餘命

a trilogy and The Juran Trilogy (朱蘭品質三部曲)

Sacred Monsters. Monstres Sacrés.

網路妖言惑眾

謀其位並經營DJ

e·no·phile also oe·no·phile

double bind (THEORY)

Beamtimes and Lifetimes

Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line

The Marketing of Higher Education

David L. Kirp

How can you turn an English department into a revenue center? How do you grade students if they are "customers" you must please? How do you keep industry from dictating a university's research agenda? What happens when the life of the mind meets the bottom line? Wry and insightful, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line takes us on a cross-country tour of the most powerful trend in academic life today--the rise of business values and the belief that efficiency, immediate practical usefulness, and marketplace triumph are the best measures of a university's success.

With a shrewd eye for the telling example, David Kirp relates stories of marketing incursions into places as diverse as New York University's philosophy department and the University of Virginia's business school, the high-minded University of Chicago and for-profit DeVry University. He describes how universities "brand" themselves for greater appeal in the competition for top students; how academic super-stars are wooed at outsized salaries to boost an institution's visibility and prestige; how taxpayer-supported academic research gets turned into profitable patents and ideas get sold to the highest bidder; and how the liberal arts shrink under the pressure to be self-supporting.

Far from doctrinaire, Kirp believes there's a place for the market--but the market must be kept in its place. While skewering Philistinism, he admires the entrepreneurial energy that has invigorated academe's dreary precincts. And finally, he issues a challenge to those who decry the ascent of market values: given the plight of higher education, what is the alternative?

The Sandbox Investment

The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics

David L. Kirp

The rich have always valued early education, and for the past forty years, millions of poor kids have had Head Start. Now, more and more middle class parents have realized that a good preschool is the smartest investment they can make in their children's future in a competitive world. As The Sandbox Investment shows, their needs are key to the growing call for universal preschool.

Writing with the verve of a magazine journalist and the authority of a scholar, David L. Kirp makes the ideal guide to this quiet movement. He crouches in classrooms where committed teachers engage lively four-year-olds, and reveals the findings of an extraordinary longitudinal study that shows the life-changing impact of preschool. He talks with cutting-edge researchers from neuroscience and genetics to economics, whose findings increasingly show how powerfully early childhood shapes the arc of children's lives.

Kids-first politics is smart economics: paying for preschool now can help save us from paying for unemployment, crime, and emergency rooms later. As Kirp reports from the inside, activists and political leaders have turned this potent idea into campaigns and policies in red and blue states alike.

The Sandbox Investment is the first full story of a campaign that asks Americans to endorse a vision of society that does well by doing good. For anyone who is interested in politics or the social uses of research--for anyone who's interested in the children's futures--it's a compelling read.