Regresso às aulas

Via @presentationzen no Twitter fui levado a reler este postal de Seth Godin com 2 anos e cada vez mais actual, "Back to (the wrong) school":

"Large-scale education was never about teaching kids or creating scholars. It was invented to churn out adults who worked well within the system.
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Of course, it worked. Several generations of productive, fully employed workers followed. But now?
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If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.
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Do you see the disconnect here? Every year, we churn out millions of of workers who are trained to do 1925 labor. (Moi ici: Fui confirmar, Metropolis é um filme de 1927, Magnitograd foi logo a seguir. Os mundos opostos ao Estranhistão de Mongo)
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The bargain (take kids out of work so we can teach them to become better factory workers) has set us on a race to the bottom. Some argue we ought to become the cheaper, easier country for sourcing cheap, compliant workers who do what they're told. We will lose that race whether we win it or not. The bottom is not a good place to be, even if you're capable of getting there."