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Commercialization of education has resulted in making education a business. Student-teacher relationship becoming the same as that of a service provider who offers you its services in return for money. This has led to Public institutes, students think that teachers are oblige to provide customer service to students. The author gives us three arguments: the reason for commercialization, why it is important and why (or how) it should be stopped.
The need for commercialization argument asserts that due the decline of public funding, rising costs, greater expectancy by students for housing has led to commercialization of education. If colleges or universities shift away from corporate culture than there will be job, program cuts and in corporate terms there will be downsizing. Students generate income for colleges and in return colleges have to provide them services. Students in return for their money expect better services like faster grading, fewer lectures, more lectures, more preparation, clearer grading standards, etc. This has led to commercialization and/or corporatization of education. The argument is strong but it just considers the fact about job losses associated without commercialization.
The argument about why commercialization or running colleges like corporates should not be done is asserted by giving us these following arguments. According to the author, If teachers are asked to change their attitude to treat students like customers- which essentially means following the golden selling rule that customer is always right, then instructors will have to work in order to make his student’s life better. The author feels that a change in attitude by either teachers or students will result in decrease in quality of ed...

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...ument. None of the two arguments are strong. If the author adds more reasons to the why it is important and why it should be stopped argument and closes the loop hole it currently possess the article could be a strong message to the institutes.
I do support the authors argument that commercialization of education is bad and needs to be stopped. The reasoning of the author is weak. If commercialization of the education is good since it gives power to the student then it doesn’t mean teacher need to be under control of students too. The author forgets to mention about feedback and comment form which help’s faculty know their wrong doing and improve every year. Nor does the argument talk about making the class intuitive enough to give every student an opportunity to understand the subject.

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http://chronicle.com/article/faculty-memembers-are-not/145363

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