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It's weird that so many American schools and so many American companies seem to think the best model for them to follow is the one of a prison, with inflexible,
by apricot 10y ago
It's weird that so many American schools and so many American companies seem to think the best model for them to follow is the one of a prison, with inflexible, arbitrary rules that dehumanize and disenfranchise.
Maybe the fact that America imprisons so many of its citizens is to blame for this.
- wolfgang42 10y agoI suspect (though admittedly without any specific theory behind it) that the cause and effect are the other way around: the mentality of inflexible disenfranchising rules that permeates the American cultural mentality is what causes both the school and corporate models as well as the mass incarceration.