Getting that degree

Subject: Getting that degree
From: Steven Owens <uso01 -at- MAILHOST -dot- UNIDATA -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 08:46:14 -0600

> I remember reading that public education was introduced at the
> beginning of the industrial revolution to train the agrarian
> population to show up at the factory on time (by the clock, not by
> the sun) and work according to a schedule.

You were probably reading Alvin Toffler's _Third Wave_. I ran into
this elsewhere in some sociology classes in college. According to
Toffler and some others, the "latent" purposes of public schooling
were to train kids to:

show up on time
respect authority
perform repetetive tasks

In other words, to be good factory workers.

Steven J. Owens
uso01 -at- unidata -dot- com


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