The Unrecycled Educator

When Confidence Left the Classroom

Why self belief is slipping faster than anyone wants to admit.

Dec 7 • Andrew Paterson

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November 2025

Stop Raising Students in Bubble Wrap

The job is not to handhold them to graduation, but to prepare them for a world that will not.

Nov 30 • Andrew Paterson

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The Door Is the School

Admissions is the foundation. If the first touchpoint is weak, everything that follows collapses.

Nov 23 • Andrew Paterson

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Give Them Something That Belongs to Them

A personal project can do more for a student than any case study ever will.

Nov 16 • Andrew Paterson

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Teaching on a Stopwatch

Inside the race to “cover” everything—and how it kills actual learning.

Nov 9 • Andrew Paterson

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The Great Unmixing

Teamwork is 60% of the curriculum, but cross-cultural competence gets 0% of the training.

Nov 2 • Andrew Paterson

October 2025

Ambition: The Most Uncomfortable Virtue in Business School

Ambition used to build empires. Now it just makes people roll their eyes.

Oct 26 • Andrew Paterson

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The Case for Point of View

AI solves. Humans decide.

Oct 19 • Andrew Paterson

Outdated Apps, Outdated Thinking

We’re teaching Office, while the office has moved on.

Oct 12 • Andrew Paterson

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Own It or Eat It

Accountability isn’t cruel. It’s the only shot you’ve got at being taken seriously in the real world.

Oct 5 • Andrew Paterson

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September 2025

Career Services Are Broken

If students graduate unemployed, the value prop is dead on arrival.

Sep 28 • Andrew Paterson

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The Absent Stakeholder

Parents are paying six figures for a degree, but not showing up for the journey.

Sep 21 • Andrew Paterson

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