The Makers of Modern Schooling The real makers of modern schooling were leaders of the new American industrialist class, men like: >Andrew Carnegie, the steel baron... >John D. Rockefeller, the duke of oil... >Henry Ford, master of the assembly line which compounded steel and oil into a vehicular dynasty and > J.P. Morgan, the king of capitalist finance... Men like these, and the brilliant efficiency expert Frederick W. Taylor, who inspired the entire "social efficiency" movement of the early twentieth century, along with providing the new Soviet Union its operating philosophy and doing the same job for Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany; men who dreamed bigger dreams than any had dreamed since Napoleon or Charlemagne, these were the makers of modern schooling. ??? What do you think their agenda was the good of the people or their pocket book? Traditional forms of instruction in America, even before the Revolution, had three specific purposes: >To make good people >To make good citizens >And to make each student find some particular talents to develop to the maximum. The new mass schooling which came about slowly but continuously after 1890, had a different purpose, a "fourth" purpose. The fourth purpose steadily squeezed the traditional three to the margins of schooling; in the fourth purpose, school in America became like school in Germany, a servant of corporate and political management. Does this sound familiar: "Go to school study hard get good grades so you can get a good... job." Hmm for most of the past 100 yrs for the majority of people who were these jobs with.... corporations and the government. The government is the largest employer and government employees make 20% more than civilian employees. Would the majority bite the one that feeds them? Go to this site: johntaylorgatto/
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 04:27:46 +0000
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