Mr. Winner's main point criticizes the commoditization of education. He satires 'schools' that sell distance learning as capitalist-entrepreneurs marketing the newest technological craze. Winner potrays for-profit corporations that sell education as marketing firms and views free-market trade in learning as straying from the purpose of education. This is clear from the conclusion of the video where he states the companys mantra: 'confidence (not education) is our business'.
Winner does not address the social and economic conditions that lead education vendors to believe that they can succeed using 'just in time' and other product-based business principles to deliver education services.
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You succinctly capture the nature of this piece as satire. I wonder what those social and economic conditions would be that you refer to here? That would probably need quite a detailed treatment of the subject to do justice to that idea.
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