Keith Hudson wrote:
[snip]
> The essential point -- as is pointed out by all teachers and head-teachers
> who retire prematurely from State schools -- is that they are persistently
> afflicted by paperwork that is coming from the central Department of
> education. The teachers are no longer in charge of their own children and
> their own methods of teaching. This is what has made their jobs stressful
> and why they have lost credibility in the community. This why the
> profession is no longer respected and why, in recent years, graduates no
> longer want to go into teaching in anywhere near the numbers that they used
> to, say, 30 or 40 years ago.
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Isn't something similar happening in other fields also? It certainly
is true for clinical socialworkers and other psychotherapists, e.g.
So when the country's Gross/Grotesque National Product is
"rising", it's not clear whether more is being accomplished for
persons. Economists out there: I'm sure this would be both
technically difficult and also ideologically contentious
(since what I consider overhead, e.g., people needing automobiles
to drive to work because they cannot conveniently walk there,
some others might consider "productive" and satisfying
genuine human needs...), but are there any figures as to
what one might call a "Net National Product"?
A major problem, as I see it, is that all sorts of
activities that *should* be discretionary become
*jobs* (life-time that persons have to sacrifice to
reproduce their individual and species life) because
of the alienation of labor. E.g.: if persons want to
play golf, let them build and maintain their
own golf courses on their own sweat-equity time,
rather than reducing all sorts of other persons
to "service workers" on the golf course (sorry, I
should have said: rather than offering all these other persons
opportunities to make money...).
+\brad mccormick
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