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Originally Posted by bailaviborita
I wasn't aware of what the FF envisioned for public education- but makes sense. I've often wondered why industry didn't take up education as their purview- in order to get workers they needed to be successful- remember the "industry towns"? Those towns had nice schools provided by the one factory that employed the town.
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Alas, the objective of many companies was to turn artisans into workers in order to maximize opportunities for greater efficiencies. In their resistance, members of the working classes quickly came to view their interests as being divergent from their employers'.
Fast forward to the twenty first century and one could see legacies of this cultural divide. Union electricians in Chicago's McCormick Place were utterly baffled on how to hang and to hook up plasmas and in absolutely no rush to figure it out. Members of the digital class turning red, politely asking their traffic coordinator "How are things going?" every ten minutes. Somehow, the answer was often the same: "They're on their break...." The electricians availed themselves of every minute of the four days they had to do four hours worth of work. The digital cable industry danced the dance again a couple of years later before deciding, along with other industries, that trade shows did not have to happen in Chicago, at least not for a few years. (It was telling that the bosses were pining for New Orleans, where plasmas were known to grow legs and walk away.)
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Seems to me that some community and technical colleges seem to be making up the slack for our HS's not turning out competent workers. And universities are making up for our HS's not turning out competent thinkers...
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This dynamic was daunting to behold. The question "What do you think?" was frequently parried with "Is this going to be on the midterm?"
