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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:45:13 MST
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- From: Roger Wilson <rwilson@ACS.UCALGARY.CA>
- Subject: Re: What is a school for?
- In-Reply-To: <01GTTD2CGMO296VZED@asu.edu>; from "Mark Steinberger" at Jan 22,
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- Mark Steinberger writes:
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- >The question is whose values we are going to teach our children.
- >
- >The values of the workplace and of polite public interaction should be
- >taught to all students in school, as that is a necessity. But deeper
- >values are more personal and should be left to families.
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- Perhaps someone might articulate the "values of the workplace" so
- we can ascertain if there's any consensus on them as I'm inclined
- to believe that there isn't. They may seem self-evident, but
- clearly they are not as various sectors of the business world do
- NOT operate with the same agenda and expectations of employees.
- There is not a generic set of values common to business for
- clearly their practices in conducting their enterprise evolve a
- set of values that are as varied as the multiplicity of companies
- conducting business, which pretty well reduces business's expectations of
- employees to notions of worker compliance and passivity in
- preparation for moulding to the company's ideology.
-