Article source for : How business culture dragged America down with it
http://prorev.com/2008/05/corporate-curse.html
It's long. It's basically about how solutions have been replaced with bullshit and silly business cliches and slogans. Large institutions are bent on perpetuating themselves not solving anything because they might be part of the problem.
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"There's a widespread feeling these days, both here and abroad, that America has lost its way, that we've gone crazy, and that school has something to do with it. Personally, I agree. But what change in schooling could restore our lost national vigor?
"Since 1983, the answer from policy circles has been: even more of the same. More hours, more days, more homework, more tests, more college, and a more coercive transfer of officially-approved curricula designed to make classrooms teacher-proof. In this tight prescription, critical thinking, artistic expression, and actual applications of learning have received short shrift. But what if regimented schooling is the disease making us sick and not its cure?"
