It’s a play I’ve been following for some time now. It’s about the increasing dominance—scratch that, the unqualified triumph—of a certain way of seeing, of reckoning value. It’s about the victory of whatever can be quantified over everything that can’t. It’s about the quiet retooling of American education into an adjunct of business, an instrument of production.
Albert Jay Nock made the point in The Theory of Education in the United States, first published, I believe, in 1930, that American educational institutions were being turned into training schools, on the principle that you can train just about anybody to do something, whereas to be educated requires that you gave a certain kind and degree oftalent.
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