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RE: The More Things Change...

Author: steve
Date: 1999-08-31 16:19

paul said:
"That's the goal of this game. Can you persevere in the face of undaunting competition? Can you survive in the jungle of professional rivalry? Can you work harder and think smarter than all of your peers? Can you quickly learn and adapt to new situations and still come out smelling like a rose instead of its fertilizer? That's what this process is all about. It's supposed to bring out the best in prospective college students and future white collar workers."

yep, paul you're right....but who benefits from this?? not the folks who have been through the mill to become corporate drones making several orders of magnitude less money than the upper management and find they have no time to play music...

why has corporate america defined how we live? why do you see a sign on a parochial school saying "This school saves x dollars in public expenditures for education" instead of "this school has a different way of educating young people, and we think it's better than the public schools?"..not that I agree or disagree with this assertion, but why do we use the metrics of "saving money" to define educational worth?...Is the fact that you and I can brag about having the crap knocked out of us by the american educational system (I worked in union carbide factories to put myself through the pressure cooker of Northwestern Univ, and I served time in the chem dept of u of illinois, phd '81)really a good thing? and for who???

The thought that penny is associating marching, music, stress and tears instead of marching, music, fun, and friendship says to me that something is screwed up about our trial by fire society...

s.

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