The educational Taylorists declared that the new mission of education should be to prepare mass numbers of students to work in the newly Taylorized economy. Following Taylor’s maxim that a system of average workers was more efficient than a system of geniuses, educational Taylorists argued that schools should provide a standard education for an average student instead of trying to foster greatness.
"educational Taylorism": mass education of the teeming masses... are foreign students with skill at an advantage of being virtually alone but with support to allow them to develop and shine?
