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>By applying an industrial-age mind-set to 21st-century professionals, many organizations are undermining incentives for workers to be efficient. Every step of

>By applying an industrial-age mind-set to 21st-century professionals, many organizations are undermining incentives for workers to be efficient. Every step of the American education system felt like this.

jaggederest 14y ago
That's because the American educational system was set up by industrialists to produce a trained workforce, not for some sort of noble philosophical ideal of enlightenment. You'll note that none of the scions of industry attend public school.
- Evbn 14y ago
  Private schools are mostly the same structurally, they just have better tracking/pace since class sizes are smaller, and they can exclude disruptive students.
  - forensic 14y ago
    !!! Tracking, pace, small class sizes, and excluding disruptive students makes ALL the difference. It's the difference between a bespoke education delivered by an excellent teacher, and a shit cookie cutter education delivered by a scantron machine.
    - Evbn 14y ago
      I don't disagree with you. Buy private shools aren't bespoke tutoring in the tradition of the European aristocracy or student-driven explorations of the world, they are the same lecture/ work/ small project/ test structure of public schools.
      - forensic 14y ago
        The extra teaching resources are there and available for students that want or need them. Most students just care not to.
  - mkempe 14y ago
    Montessori schools do not follow the assembly-line model of education. Montessori schools are all private because institutionalized educational systems aren't interested in switching their fundamental philosophy of education. There is one exception, the Milwaukee school system. I'm not aware of other places that have tried the same.
    - ijl 14y ago
      It's surprising, but I actually count 91 public non-charter Montessori schools. Often they're magnet schools or 'academies', and it looks like very often just elementary.

jaggederest 14y ago

That's because the American educational system was set up by industrialists to produce a trained workforce, not for some sort of noble philosophical ideal of enlightenment. You'll note that none of the scions of industry attend public school.

Evbn 14y ago
Private schools are mostly the same structurally, they just have better tracking/pace since class sizes are smaller, and they can exclude disruptive students.
- forensic 14y ago
  !!! Tracking, pace, small class sizes, and excluding disruptive students makes ALL the difference. It's the difference between a bespoke education delivered by an excellent teacher, and a shit cookie cutter education delivered by a scantron machine.
  - Evbn 14y ago
    I don't disagree with you. Buy private shools aren't bespoke tutoring in the tradition of the European aristocracy or student-driven explorations of the world, they are the same lecture/ work/ small project/ test structure of public schools.
    - forensic 14y ago
      The extra teaching resources are there and available for students that want or need them. Most students just care not to.
- mkempe 14y ago
  Montessori schools do not follow the assembly-line model of education. Montessori schools are all private because institutionalized educational systems aren't interested in switching their fundamental philosophy of education. There is one exception, the Milwaukee school system. I'm not aware of other places that have tried the same.
  - ijl 14y ago
    It's surprising, but I actually count 91 public non-charter Montessori schools. Often they're magnet schools or 'academies', and it looks like very often just elementary.