<p>Related note Can’t find the link, but the New York Times had an article this morning about the amount of money (I’m considering a career change!) some people are paying to get their kid tutored for a humanities class that stresses primary sources and finding things out for yourself. The school is sadly bleating that they wish the parents wouldn’t…but on it goes. </p>
<p>What are they going to do when Johnny gets into the working world and finds out that if he does exactly what he’s told to, but not one step more, he will be viewed as supremely irritating by those in charge of getting him paid. (We had a guy the other day who reproduced an error and concluded that the system was working just the way we said it was! Can’t make this stuff up!)</p>