What kind of potential do they fail to live up to? Howard Gardner famously listed nine frames of mind that might be highlighted in a formal education system (see below).
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Individuals would have different patterns of potential and therefore have different career pathways. Schools should support more than Reading, wRiting and aRithmatic. But schools cannot do it alone. The family, community and employers would have to be involved and this would involve changing minds at the level of subculture and culture.
The idea is that there should be progress which involves change for the better. But what constitutes better and who decides when, where and how?
The state education system acts as a sieve which sorts those who are to be the middle managers from those who are to be (a) the administrators and grunt workers and (b) the self employed.
The overall cultural goal is to canalize citizens into being biddable workers, malleable consumers, and willing cannon fodder when wars are declared and the military industrial complex rubs its hands with glee.
As the rich get richer crumbs fall from their tables and some of the wealth trickles down to the huddled masses (the poor will be with us always?) A rising tide floats all boats - except those with holes. It can also be argued that as the rich get richer the poor get poorer and race to the bottom to work in dangerous sweatshops.
And then, on the bright side, with major inputs from the Internet, there might be a flourishing of the bottom four frames of mind in the above table. Are we beginning to see a critical mass of people able to deal calmly with (a) emotions in themselves and in others, (b) physical environmental issues and (c) the ongoing existential conundrum of canalization for our global age.
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