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Schools (at least American public schools) are one of the last bastions of Taylorism in the west. They treat students like uniform widgets on an assembly line.

You can read for yourself: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED566616.pdf https://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/content/issue3_2/rees.html



“Treating X as uniform widgets” (where X are not uniform widgets) and “scientific management” are not only not the same thing, they are anticorrelated.




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