Professionals, by definition, are more skilled than amateurs in any given field, but they both experience failure. And to an average observer, they appear to fail in similar ways. The practitioner is moving along nicely in carrying out his or her craft -- and then suddenly it all falls apart. The golf ball flies off … Continue reading Panicking vs. Choking: The Different Ways that Amateurs and Professionals Fail
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Nobel prizes are great, but college football is why American universities dominate the globe
This post is a reprint of a piece I published in Quartz in 2017. Here's a link to the original. It's an effort to explore the distinctively populist character of American higher education. The idea is that a key to understanding the strong public support that US colleges and universities have managed to generate is … Continue reading Nobel prizes are great, but college football is why American universities dominate the globe
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 