Meanwhile, inside the public schools themselves many educators are pushing to get past the assembly line model of schooling.

FORBES: Beyond Assembly Line Schools

Think of the assembly-line model for public education: all our boys and girls sent to school so they can become good little factory workers, accustomed to taking orders and standing in line.

FORBES: Grifters and the Cult of Savviness

Not the Ford of the assembly line and the mass-marketed Model T, whose achievements Gou has already matched, nor the elderly Henry Ford of the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

FORBES: Apple And Foxconn Are The Best Thing That's Ever Happened To Chinese Labour

Problematic fact: The slang dates to 1916, five years before the Duesenberg Model A rolled off the assembly line.

FORBES: The Makings of a Duesy

Instead we get Teaching By Rote 2.0 and a deeper entrenchment of the school-as-assembly-line model.

FORBES: Blame a Teacher Day

Soon Ford was developing the assembly line, which would boost production from 20, 000 Model T's in 1910 to 600, 000 six years later.

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