(03-06-2021, 04:44 PM)Einzige Wrote: Schools are modeled after factories. The notion that education should be designed to produce "adequately paid workers" is capitalistic garbage.
That has been a commonplace rap against public schools. At one time, most of the graduates of the public K-12 system graduated into factory work as the largest category of employment. The extraordinary top of public K-12 graduates typically went on to college.
By the way -- if people are not to be "adequately paid workers", then what are they going to be? People exploited severely? I am satisfied that most work, including fast-food work and much retail work, requires army-like regimentation to meet expectations of customers.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.