School Is to Submit
&gt; Most nations today would be richer if they had long ago just submitted wholesale to a rich nation, allowing that rich nation to change their laws, customs, etc., and just do everything their way. But this idea greatly offends national and cultural pride. So nations stay poor.<p>The examples of China, Japan and the USA suggest the exact opposite. (Actually I do not know an example that would support the authors claim.)<p>&gt; When firms and managers from rich places try to transplant rich practices to poor places, giving poor place workers exactly the same equipment, materials, procedures, etc., one of the main things that goes wrong is that poor place workers just refuse to do what they are told.<p>[Citation needed] 
and so on, and so on...<p>In conclusion, I think were the essay falls apart is, that it does not examine different kinds of submit. &#x27;submit&#x27; is a very different word if the pupil submits to a teacher out of a deep desire to learn a new skill or if someone submits to a warlord. (And both are very different from submitting to a boss at a workplace.) Plus it would be nice to see a rejection of the standard story, that school mainly teaches useful skills.