This Handbook, written by one of the education establishment\u2019s principal proponents of OBE, provides a thorough understanding of William Spady\u2019s OBE. It is a \u201cmust read\u201d for the many Americans, including teachers, who wonder why traditional academic education has been replaced by Skinnerian behaviorist (value changing) education and why the curriculum has been dumbed down to the lowest common denominator (LCD). It should be read in conjunction with separate entry entitled \u201cThe Making of Our Children into Robots.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following excerpts explain the LCD premises of OBE and explain the system for organization and delivery of the program:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe three premises that arc the foundation-stones of outcome-based education provide a comprehensive picture, basic purposes of schools. A school is not a selecting or classifying agent. Its role is not to determine which 30 percent of the entering first-graders have what it takes to succeed in college. The school has no mandate to cater primarily to the intellectually elite or the socially privileged. In a democratic society education is for everyone – as it must be if democratic society is to survive.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n