Great post from Seth Godin: Whatever happened to labor? http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...
"In a world where labor does exactly what it's told to do, it will be devalued. Obedience is easily replaced, and thus one worker is as good as another. And devalued labor will be replaced by machines or cheaper alternatives. We say we want insightful and brilliant teachers, but then we insist they do their labor precisely according to a manual invented by a committee..."
- Graham Sergeant