Some believe that they will be hired on the reputation of their schools, so the schools should be seeking fame. No doubt other standards also are believed to enhance the placement of university graduates. Apart from the forward looking matter of using themselves as graduates, students participate as agents in their own education, collaborating in the organizations that turn students into college graduates. Professors say that to produce a proper product the students must learn ideas from books and lectures. Accordingly, students define standards for pedagogical procedures of which they are beneficiaries, requiring that books and lectures are interesting and clear enough to foster their learning activities.
Employers use college graduates in organizations.
Therefore educational institutions must ensure that graduates know how to perform key activities that occur in employing organizations, and that the graduates will perform the activities when they are supposed to. The demand for mobilizability sets standards regarding moral aspects of education. Graduates must be free of drugs that could induce lassitude, and they must be sexually inhibited enough that economic systems can control them. Ideally graduates have been taught that their work is intrinsically fulfilling so that they do not demand excessive monetary incentive in order to perform their duties. Professors' lofty, ivory-tower standards focus on how graduates will be used by people in the future, in the same sense that people today still use Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, etc.