Quotes from William Badke

our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.

The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.

We've come to understand over the past hundred years that information is colored with subjectivity: What we know depends on how we interpret our information base.

The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change?

Information is supposed to inform. That means it has to be reliable, relevant, current, and so on. There was a time when people believed that, given the right information, we

or concepts the publisher doesn't like) are not as sure to sell as the tried and true. On this, see Brian Martin, The Politics of Research