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Re:To Fix America's Education Bureaucracy, We Need to Destro... by yummyfajitas on Saturday April 07, 2012 @10:25AM (#3810939)
By his definition, musicians are artists. Their goal is to create unique products which satisfy unknown consumer desires.

In contrast, teachers are "artistic professionals" (except maybe at level of PhD advisers). Their goal is to use artistic techniques to create products which have achieved a fixed set of goals.

Bureaucratic goal setting is not desirable in all circumstances, but it is useful in some.

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Re:To Fix America's Education Bureaucracy, We Need to Destro... by cynicalkane on Saturday April 07, 2012 @11:07AM (#3811043)
Actually, I was talking about the producer-musician relationship. The producer's goal is more clearly defined than that of the teacher--"help us make money"--and yet you don't see the RIAA sending down standardized tests for musicians.
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