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Yeah, you're incentivized to punish your students for disobedience, and not respecting The Test. That's not a bug, but a feature. (At least from the perspective
by calibraxis 14y ago
Yeah, you're incentivized to punish your students for disobedience, and not respecting The Test. That's not a bug, but a feature. (At least from the perspective of those who formulate policy.)
Would you want your employees to seriously disrespect tasks they morally disagree with, like sabotaging your advertising system because they think advertising is harmful to society, or changing your website to admit how you're raiding people's pensions? Telling off your big corporate/military customers? (If you did, you probably wouldn't last long in your position.)
I don't know many bosses who want their subordinates to rush through their tasks, in order to read some book of personal interest, or to build a competing company with better service.
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoLet me re-phrase that: Would you want your employees to hack the current process, because they morally disagree or are bored, or simply curious. Maybe not. But someone will. Welcome to Schumpter's law.
- xtian 14y agoPerhaps the most important difference between employees and students is that employees get paid for their time.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoI think the analogy was being made between employees of your company, and the teachers at a school, not between employees and students.
- hdctambien 14y agoThe school system we have in place was designed to train students to be employees.
- xtian 14y agoAbsolutely, and I think that is its most serious flaw. Is that really the purpose of education?