If you are right, and I'm inclined to believe that you are, the problem then becomes how to educate such people so that they are useful in an increasingly high-tech world. Anyone who is content doing the low-responsibility grind is very unlikely to take entrepreneurial-level initiative in their own education, so the best method of training them really is the cog-in-the-machine style system that we have in place. The problem is not the existence of our meat grinder education, but the lack of existence of any alternative for people who don't fit in it (entrepreneurs, the terminally curious, smart people in general). Ironically, the author bemoans our one-size-fits-all approach and then proposes replacing it with another of the same characteristic. Really, we need both.
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If you are right, and I'm inclined to believe that you are, the problem then becomes how to educate such people so that they are useful in an increasingly high-tech world. Anyone who is content doing the low-responsibility grind is very unlikely to take entrepreneurial-level initiative in their own education, so the best method of training them really is the cog-in-the-machine style system that we have in place. The problem is not the existence of our meat grinder education, but the lack of existence of any alternative for people who don't fit in it (entrepreneurs, the terminally curious, smart people in general). Ironically, the author bemoans our one-size-fits-all approach and then proposes replacing it with another of the same characteristic. Really, we need both.