{"id":25399,"date":"2014-05-03T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T05:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25399"},"modified":"2014-05-02T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T22:04:33","slug":"qotd-the-educational-machinery-that-produces-the-modern-twenty-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/05\/03\/qotd-the-educational-machinery-that-produces-the-modern-twenty-something\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The educational machinery that produces the modern twenty-something"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When conservatives complain that children are not being taught anything in public schools, they&#8217;re half right: They&#8217;re not being taught anything useful. They&#8217;re taught how to conform. That&#8217;s really the point of so many of the stupid rules in modern schooling, people learn to obey the irrational.<\/p>\n<p>This translates into the corporate world in two ways. Those leaving the educational system are outwardly rebellious and undisciplined, even slovenly. Inwardly they&#8217;re perfect conformists. They haven&#8217;t the slightest notion of principles or integrity, it&#8217;s been beaten out of them by the public schools. They are desperate to fit in and conform in a way that is common among teenagers, but used to fade away as people entered their twenties and thirties. As a cranky old executive once observed to me, the young people aren&#8217;t so much soft as weak. Passionate about trivia and indifferent toward the fundamentals of life and work.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Anderson, <a href=\"http:\/\/godscopybook.blogs.com\/gpb\/2014\/05\/in-praise-of-grumpy-men.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;In Praise of Grumpy Men&#8221;, <em>The Gods of the Copybook Headings<\/em><\/a>, 2014-05-01<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When conservatives complain that children are not being taught anything in public schools, they&#8217;re half right: They&#8217;re not being taught anything useful. They&#8217;re taught how to conform. That&#8217;s really the point of so many of the stupid rules in modern schooling, people learn to obey the irrational. This translates into the corporate world in two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,831,79,41],"tags":[95,764],"class_list":["post-25399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-business","category-education","category-quotations","tag-jobs","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6BF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25400,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399\/revisions\/25400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}