I'd probably word things a bit differently, but this post touches on a core issue for me: who do schools serve? John Moravec paraphrases George Carlin to make the point: "the aim of education was to produce workers 'just smart enough to run the machines,' but 'just dumb enough to passively accept these increasingly shittier jobs.'" This needs to change, says Moravec. "Instead of adapting students to fit outdated systems, we must adapt systems to support students' development as informed, imaginative, and ethical change-makers." It reminded me of Mark Carney's discussion of 'purpose based corporations' in Value(s). He talks about a corporations responsibility to the shareholder, and to broader social objectives - environment, health, finance - but never considers the well-being of employees as a primary corporate purpose. Employees - like students - are viewed as an expense, not the primary reason the thing exists.
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