Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.
No matter how much control kids get over the media they watch, they are still utterly powerless when it comes to the manufacturing of brands. Even a consumer revolt merely reinforces one's role as a consumer, not an autonomous or creative being.
Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.
Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?
Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies.
Every now and then, markets behave like schoolchildren. They overreact, they run around like crazy.
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
Business has to have a seat at the table. Infrastructure isn't going to be built properly if business doesn't have a seat at the table. A school is not going to happen if businesses don't work with schools about what kind of jobs they really need.
The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools.
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.