Orwellian Education [View all]
Read this bit the other day, and am curious to hear what the thoughts of UDers are on it.
Basically it asks the question: can schools "nurture students" in the direction of economically "useful" jobs in order to safeguard future economic growth. I find the notion really misguided. While it makes sense to me to, perhaps, provide students with information about what sectors are likely to experience job growth in the future, it's tough for anyone to know for sure where economic growth + new jobs are going to come from. Generally speaking, fostering creativity is more important for future economic growth in my view, especially seeing as how success is increasingly spontaneous and predicated on a good idea, that's well executed on a business level.
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