murkrow
Branded with Satan
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And where do the corporations find the geniuses and intelligent people before they can afford to go to a good school to prove their brilliance? You're being highly idealistic. The reality is that when education becomes purely commodified and morons like Bush are able to pay their way through school the value of an education is less meaningful. This is why many northern European countries have a far more effective education system than the US. I should also mention the Soviet Union which launched Sputnik and Gagarin into space before the US which made them think "hmm maybe we better put more money into education" and they did.
Yet Harvard economists are still calling things like pollution, and the billions it amounts to in health costs, 'externalities'. Well, they mine as well be living on mars because the price of a good doesn't reflect the real costs. But this is the poor quality education you're going to get when science and academia is put in the hands of people with MBAs. You're going to get things like "alternative medicine" and endarkenment. In private institutions we see more biased testing. Didn't you hear "red wine is good for your heart". Yes and the people that were surveyed were all comfortably living bourgeoisie that are living longer anyways. Survey a bunch of homeless people or persons with incomes < than 5000 per year and we'll see entirely different results. Incidentally, these bias surveys serve the interest of industry rather than academia. This is the problem when the people with MBAs start running science and academia..you get a program that reflects their interest which usually isn't the best quality education. That said, I think privatization is a terrible and destructive idea that amounts to a poor quality education given the alternatives.
Thank you for making me read an entirely off topic paragraph about surveys.
It is in the interest of the business world to have intellectuals working for them. Children who show high intellectual capability would be scouted for, this is a simple fact. It is not idealist, it is realistic to assume that corporations will do what is in their best interest.
Almost all children will be sent to corporate schools if there are no other options available to them, it would be free and guarantee a job. The chances of a gifted child slipping through the hands of a corporation attempting to recruit the best a brightest from the people it has already signed on are incredibly low, much lower than the chances of a gifted child going nowhere in the current system.