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I don't like to quote other people from a cloistered discussion without their permission, but here's my portion of the conversation:
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Yes, and Taylorism, the other Taylor, is much discussed all throughout the literature on institutional and organizational culture. This is all the stuff that all us old Flower Children were always railing against in the 60's and 70's. From the current vantage point, however, one can see that the countervailing influence of Progressive Education was ever-present and really dominant, though constantly at risk, of course, and even more at risk today.
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Not sure homeschooling is the answer though. I see a lot of problems there.
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Except for Descartes, and my own brief spell in parochial school, I don't know much about the Jesuit educational model. It seems that Descartes spent his whole life, and never quite succeeded, trying to escape the adverse side-effects of his early education. As do we all, I reckon.
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But the very fact that the Jesuits returned when recalled speaks tomes about the defects of that model.
Jon Awbrey