Assessing the General Education Elephant

摘要

Determining the success of angeneral education programncan resemble the task of JohnnGodfrey Saxe’s six blind men in tryingnto acquaint themselves with an elephant.nOne man’s approach is to feelnthe tusk and conclude that the elephantnis a spear. Another approach leads tonthinking that the broad side of thenanimal is a wall. The many ways ofnasking and answering key questions cannseem to be an impediment to figuringnout what the real elephant is.