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To Bowles and Gintis, they were evidence that the school system was rigged to create a docile proletariat. Teachers rewarded repressed drones, according to Bowles and Gintis; they found that the students with the highest GPAs were the ones who scored the lowest on the measures of creativity and independence, and the highest on the measures of punctuality, delay of gratification, predictably, and dependability.
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Corporate America's rulers wanted to staff their offices with bland and reliable sheep, so they created a school system that selected those traits.
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Bowles and Gintis then consulted similar scales for office workers, and they found that supervisors judged their workforce the way teachers judged their students. They gave low ratings to employees with high levels of creativity and independence and high ratings to those workers with high levels of tact, punctuality, dependability, and delay of gratification. To Bowles and Gintis, these findings confirmed their thesi
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