Practical

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations called for "educational schooling" to correct the human damage caused by mindless working environments, but Andrew Carnegie, writing 126 years after Smith, in The Empire of Business disagreed. Educational schooling, said Carnegie, gave working people bad attitudes, it taught what was useless, it imbued the future workforce with "false ideas" that gave it "a distaste for practical life:'
 --John Taylor Gatto, "Weapons Of Mass Instruction", p. 15