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Originally Posted by Brutha  The companies thatrun an industrialist society never designed the system from the ground up.
If they would, you wouldn't have things like analysis of poems and a lot more classes on reading financial statements.
The little amount of desing that went into the system was made by academics, school teachers and politicians and all three groups usually aren't payed by the private sector. |
The philosophies of the private sector had a lot to do with it. (ie, Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth") They're also the ones who funded it. People like the Rockefellers played a big role in bringing us modern education.
We also imported many ideas from the Prussian school of thought. You could argue we practically copied their system. It was designed to dumb students down and make them submissive, so no matter our intent for copying them we'd be stupid to expect otherwise from our own system. (Speaking as an American.)
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Distinguishing people who are really bad at something from people who are average isn't hard.
Distinguishing people who are good from people who are great is hard especially if the teacher isn't great himself
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I don't think it's the role of any institution to define who is and isn't great. (Does that contradict my earlier post? If so, I must amend my thoughts, and this is my clarification.) Greatness lies in the realm of subjectivity. Sometimes people can sense it and sometimes they can't. I believe it's up to the individual to bring it out in themselves and make the world take notice. Our duty is to make them competent. It's up to them how far they refine their skillset.