Mass Production of Individuals
by teachbad
Every student is a precious gift who deserves an educational experience that is at once self-paced and expertly guided; providing a constant but ever-changing and perfect combination of challenge, relevance, support and blah-bitty blah blah, etc. You know…
And we all wish we could do that for our students. Or, if we don’t wish we could, we used to imagine that we might be able to or want to. Or, lacking that, we reasonably assumed that our students might have endeavored to do more work on their own. But whatever the case, each student is a uniquely individual…individual…precious, wonderful gift.
Everybody will sign onto the idea of the precious gift. That’s easy. Less pleasing to the ear and the heart, but no less true, is that each student is nameless and interchangeable. The whole of public education is bureaucratic-servicesmass production. There are tens of millions of units to process every year; each then moves to the next producti
