If you want the epitome of this 'one-size-fits-all' approach and witness its results upclose then please come to europe.
This fear of a middle-ages class-based school system that is encoded in every administrators head, has forged a bond inbetween civil servant and teacher so strong that they cannot be distinguished from another.
In fact this bond is so strong now that even the slightest form of desire for exellence is not just seen as an attack on the schoolsystem itself but also on the very fundaments of the society it's supposed to serve.
This story made me think of two things:
quote from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, 80% of the effects comes from 20% of the causes. And:
I also remember research being done regarding p2p networks and social behavior. I think it was preformed by at&t or something in that direction. 90% of the total amount of p2p clients were up/downloading only 10% of the total available content. Not very efficient..... for ISP's etc.
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I first installed Debian somewhere before the potato era. On a 386 I had to put the hdd on the same cable as the cdrom otherwise it wouldnt boot.
I installed it and accidently got in to `top` which was the most unbelievable KEWLLLLLst thing I ever saw !!!!
In that time people still took the time to properly write a manualpage grmbl..
If you want the epitome of this 'one-size-fits-all' approach and witness its results upclose then please come to europe.
This fear of a middle-ages class-based school system that is encoded in every administrators head, has forged a bond inbetween civil servant and teacher so strong that they cannot be distinguished from another.
In fact this bond is so strong now that even the slightest form of desire for exellence is not just seen as an attack on the schoolsystem itself but also on the very fundaments of the society it's supposed to serve.
One giant self fulfilling prophecy if you ask me.