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The idea at the core of reductive human capital theory as an educational meta-theory is that the main function of educational systems is to supply the economy with the next generation of workers. This idea has been active in political life for some time, and can be seen as a successor to the idea that educational systems function to create pliable citizens and patriots.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
To make something well is to give yourself to it, to seek wholeness, to follow spirit. To learn to make something well can take your whole life. It’s worth it.
Steering the Craft
Ursula K. Le Guin
While economics sees itself as a ‘taxis’, a ‘deliberate arrangement’, catallaxy is presented as a ‘cosmos’, a world. While the first is a ‘teleocracy’, a unit oriented by a hierarchy of ends set by a central agent, the second is a ‘nomocracy’,12 an order where everyone pursues his own ends, following the rules of a universal game.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
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