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== The Academy rules ==

== The Academy rules ==

Most likely, ''the academy'' governs the people. The government runs all lower, middle, and high schools. Beyond that, one goes either to Star Fleet Academy or to university. Obviously if one gets into Star Fleet Academy, and graduates, Star Fleet will “set one up for life.” If one goes to university, one must imagine some kind of Career Placement Board that ''selects'' one’s career. This Board would base its selection on:

Most likely, ''the academy'' governs the people. The government runs all lower, middle, and high schools. Beyond that, one goes either to Star Fleet Academy or to [[university]]. Obviously if one gets into Star Fleet Academy, and graduates, Star Fleet will “set one up for life.” If one goes to university, one must imagine some kind of Career Placement Board that ''selects'' one’s career. This Board would base its selection on:

# the aptitude the candidate shows for different areas of intelligent life-form endeavor, and

# the aptitude the candidate shows for different areas of intelligent life-form endeavor, and

# the needs of society for certain kinds of jobholder.

# the needs of society for certain kinds of jobholder.

So in theory, someone has your life planned out for you. And that someone is not your mother, father, or other guardian. It is the government. Or else it is the Combined Interlocking Board of Regents. The only place you ''really'' have to work at, would be Star Fleet Academy and any school of medicine. No one goes to ''business'' school. Instead they go to an ''organization and management'' school.

So in theory, someone has your life planned out for you. And that someone is not your mother, father, or other guardian. It is the [[government]]. Or else it is the Combined Interlocking Board of Regents. The only place you ''really'' have to work at, would be Star Fleet Academy and any school of medicine. No one goes to ''business'' school. Instead they go to an ''organization and management'' school.

=== Management or art? ===

=== Management or art? ===

Today, the [[Yale University]] School of Organization and Management already offers a degree they call “Master of Public and Private Management.” In the ''Star Trek'' era, that degree would have a simpler name: Master of Management. And all management is public.

Today, the [[Yale University]] School of Organization and Management already offers a degree they call “Master of Public and Private Management.” In the ''Star Trek'' era, that degree would have a simpler name: Master of Management. And all management is public.

The Career Placement Board could also send a person to art school, music school, or journalism school. ''Everything'' depends on qualifying for admission, then getting a degree. The academy knows how many people society needs for what jobs. (This society has no ditch diggers. Robots dig the ditches on Earth, Vulcan, etc.)

The Career Placement Board could also send a person to [[art]] school, [[music]] school, or [[journalism]] school. (The latter would prepare someone to report or perhaps comment for the government organ.) ''Everything'' depends on qualifying for admission, then getting a degree. The academy knows how many people society needs for what jobs. (This society has no ditch diggers. Robots dig the ditches on Earth, Vulcan, etc.)

''Inventors'' all work in government laboratories. Imagine Thomas Alva Edison, not as a laboratory owner, but as a chief project officer and government employee. Or else they work in university laboratories, that the government coddles with generous in-kind grants. One can assume Star Fleet always gets the best inventors the academy can find.

''Inventors'' all work in government laboratories. Imagine Thomas Alva Edison, not as a laboratory owner, but as a chief project officer and government employee. Or else they work in university laboratories, that the government coddles with generous in-kind grants. One can assume Star Fleet always gets the best inventors the academy can find.