Bait and Switch
Yesterday, I started reading Bait and Switch, a book by investigative journalist Barbara Ehrenreich. I had read her earlier book, Nickel and Dimed, about her experiment to see if a person could really make a living on a minimum wage job.
In Bait and Switch, she enters the white collar working world to discover why even the most prepared and educated aren't guaranteed good employment in today's world. The book was published in 2005, much earlier than my own ideas about this were formed.
I am looking forward to seeing if the author comes to some of the same conclusions I have -- that today's world has technology that makes work done by people almost obsolete and that instead of trying to create more work, maybe we ought to quit working so hard! Of course, it all comes down to money and the need to make it...
this blog focuses on education but there is a big picture. Just as our work is changing with the changes in how we do it, so is education changing as the need to gather people in one place to learn diminishes.
We have to look at the big picture and make goals based on what we see it as. We need to quit compartmentalizing everything. We can't just fix one thing; we have to fix many. And we need to recognize how everything is inter-related. Most importantly, we need to quit trying to fit everything into a box that was built a long long time ago.
In Bait and Switch, she enters the white collar working world to discover why even the most prepared and educated aren't guaranteed good employment in today's world. The book was published in 2005, much earlier than my own ideas about this were formed.
I am looking forward to seeing if the author comes to some of the same conclusions I have -- that today's world has technology that makes work done by people almost obsolete and that instead of trying to create more work, maybe we ought to quit working so hard! Of course, it all comes down to money and the need to make it...
this blog focuses on education but there is a big picture. Just as our work is changing with the changes in how we do it, so is education changing as the need to gather people in one place to learn diminishes.
We have to look at the big picture and make goals based on what we see it as. We need to quit compartmentalizing everything. We can't just fix one thing; we have to fix many. And we need to recognize how everything is inter-related. Most importantly, we need to quit trying to fit everything into a box that was built a long long time ago.
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