The usual lines are being trotted out
Again
And again
That school is for getting a job
And I know the echoes are coming back
Saying who the customer is
And that the customer is always right

They have it wrong
Of course
Because that model’s a bad one
But you have to meet students where they are
So it might be said
If we’re going to follow the model
That the student’s not the customer
Their prospective employers are
And their teachers are as much quality control
As they are factory tools

It somehow never seems to occur
That the students are materials
Shaped and processed by the processes–
And
Indeed
The doctors who teach and who teach teachers
Draw out
Wire from billets
Billets from ore–
And that sometimes
The raw stuff has to be discarded
And even what has been processed once
Fails when it is made from
Basic stuff into
More complex machinery

A few seem to get the point
And stop their parts in that choir
But others never do
And scream on
Out of tune

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