Harry Pollard wrote:
>
> Chris wrote:
>
> >This reminds me of a news-item I read some time ago about some UK teachers
> >who helped their pupils cheating during exams. They did this to make
> >their school look better compared to other schools, so their own school
> >would get more funding. Ain't competition wonderful ?
>
> Chris,
>
> I think that I can top that.
>
> Teachers in US inner-city schools were found to be altering the test-scores
> downward so it was obvious that were needed!
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Most people seem not to have heard of what I call:
"[Erving] Goffman's First Law":
Wherever there is a system,
there is a way to "work" it.
There is a faint glimmer of hope in Max Weber's "iron cage"
and in most other "institutions", "systems", etc.....
+\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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