core problem obsolete factory model schooling sorts, tracks, tests, re — Grace Lee Boggs, Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism Twenty-First Century

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At the core of the problem is an obsolete factory model of schooling that sorts, tracks, tests, and rejects or certifies working-class children as if they were products on an assembly line. The purpose of education, I said, cannot be only to increase the earning power of the individual or to supply workers for the ever-changing slots of the corporate machine. Children need to be given a sense of the 'unique capacity of human beings to shape and create reality in accordance with conscious purposes and plans.

Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

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