The information and trade accounts of schooling both fail under scrutiny

Evidence

What is a school, after all? A school, the obvious answer goes, is a place where people go to learn. What precisely is being learned, transmitted, acquired? Information, you might wager. But surely a school of dance is doing more than transmitting “information” to its students. A trade, then? But the students of Socrates were no more employable for having followed his winding inquiries. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 286

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Greek education debates and Socrates-model apprentice questioning familiar from the philosophical canon. — connects to: Mass media and schooling have made language an unreliable identity clue — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 443
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Mass media and schooling have made language an unreliable identity clue — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 443