Preparing to speak to over a thousand educators this morning in Sacramento, CA on building an Entrepreneurial mindset…one quote stands out that should make us all think twice about how we approach professional development as well as the educational development of the next generation:

Andrew Carnegie, in the Early 1900s, wrote (concerning the development of our educational institutions here in the US…)

“We need compliant workers…willing to work for less than the value their productivity creates… …The best way is to build an educational industry designed to teach workers just enough to get them to cooperate.”    No wonder it’s so hard to hire good people!

© 2011, David Stelzl