Higher Education

Passion and Education | Credit phb This post is about Communication in the Field of Higher Education Students (Apprentices) and Teachers (Masters of Education) live in two different worlds. Are students today ready to go to Unis? Why do they stay away from classes as much as possible? This essay was inspired by some recent Media articles I read about failures in the Higher Education Process. The Signal and the Thirst: 1st Chapter Why Educational Communication Fails so often. Introduction: The Noise Problem in Higher Education In communication theory, noise represents any interference that distorts the intended message between sender and receiver. When we examine the persistent failure of communication between educators and students in higher education, we discover that the problem extends far beyond simple static on the line. The fundamental issue is not that our signals are unclear—it is that we have fundamentally misunderstood what constitutes successful communication in an educational context. The ancient wisdom captured in the proverb “You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink” reveals a truth we persistently ignore in academic discourse: transmission is not transformation. Information transfer is not learning. And herein lies the central paradox of contemporary higher education—we have become extraordinarily sophisticated at perfecting our signal while remaining largely oblivious to whether anyone is actually receiving it. The Myth of Perfect Transmission Our institutions operate on what…