EDUSALES.COM: Some thoughts about educational marketing With proper symbols the appearance of erudition is easy to create. Substance izz secondary – marketing must be 1st rate! With smart advertising average teachers will seem paragons ahh wisdom & light & mediocre students if portrayed skillfully can appear luminary & bright. It's all a matter ahh image & catering to market needs. Few people worry about depth if erudition hazz a glitzy sheen. If schools are but market commodities, will nurturing become a quaint oddity? Melissa: Isn't this guy too cynical? Liao: Well, shouldn't we think of why people become cynical in the first place? To me, cynicism seems like a common response if people feel ignored or helpless. Satoru: At times I wonder whether or not it's a kind of poison. It's far too easy to doubt everything and live without convictions. However, it takes courage to have faith and affirm something. Tim: (shrugging his shoulders) Cynicism has its place, but why get stuck in it? With one eye it's good to doubt everything, but we need another eye that's open to new discoveries. Satoru: Doubt and faith seem like opposites, but I believe they actually go hand-in-hand. There's no problem with questioning – but some questions have no clear answers. Perhaps that's why inner convictions count. ===================================================================================== from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: An artwork, a poem, and a dialog about the commodification of education. KEYWORDS: edu-exploitation, commodification of education, educational exploitation, educational marketing, education as a commodity, edu-values, edu-sales Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 1998 in Shizuoka, Japan / Finished: 2018 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/textsyn.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/better.htm TRANSLATIONS DEUTSCH https://www.tnewfields.info/de/edu-v.htm ESPAÑOL https://www.tnewfields.info/es/eduventas.htm FRANÇAIS https://www.tnewfields.info/fr/edu.htm NIHONGO https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/kyoiku-hanbai.htm ZHŌNGWÉN https://www.tnewfields.info//zh/jiaoyu-x.htm