Question
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Irena Miller 09.09.2021 |
Vladimir Mikhailovich, good evening! I`m reading your book about education. Tell me, please, if you are not afraid that if you turn education into business, many of its values will devalue (sorry for the tautology). I mean, the management of such a school will have not teaching but earning money as the goal.
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1. I offer new values: High-quality education of children on a high standard + high salaries for teachers.
And the current values, that is, poor education + beggarly teachers` salary I offer to leave in the past. Although there must be diversity for balance and justice: anyone who likes this value can leave it and live with it.
2. The word «business» means «activity». For example, bread is baked — it’s an activity (business), planes fly — it’s an activity. Unlike the perverted stamp imposed on us that business is something obscene, aimed only at dishonest profits, everything is a little different.
Bread is bought only if it is delicious, and only in this case the bakery receives income. And if the bread is not tasty, then it is not bought and the bakery goes bankrupt.
Planes do not fly for profit, but to transport passengers. And if the airline is good, everything is polite and scheduled, people fly with pleasure, pay for tickets and the airline earns income. And if it serves poorly, then people go to another airline, and the «slacker» leaves market.
As Rockefeller said, business is primarily the production of shoes. And only if they are sold, then there is money.
3. The same way with education. First, it is necessary to produce an ideal educational product (it is a highly educated according to the modern high standard and a well-bred graduate) and then to see how much it can cost. And only then it`s time to determine who will pay for it: the state, funds, parents or mixed.
4. The idea that conmen will manage education, teach badly and scoop up money has no grounds, since people are not ready to pay for bad production any longer because they have learned to distinguish between good and bad.
Therefore, the school model described in my book will be both useful and profitable at the same time. And it`s a win-win situation.
