Here is your complete post (I have bolded the part I responded to):
Steven, SAT's are used as much to measure state funding and support of local public and private schools as they are for measuring students ability to perform in college. A town's public school administrative and teacher performance is compared each year by CAP tests and SATs.
Since it seems improbable we will live in a measureless society where pay and other rewards don't gravitate to those who perform better at tests, work or creativity, what can be done to balance the scales? After all, it is a competetive world. How would you broaden the availability of self worth and economic reward?
I agree we live in a society that measures worth, that we live in cultures in which we interact. Duh.
Your question, as I understood it, was how do we, you and I, or you or I, broaden the availability of self worth and economic reward for other people? And my response is, we don't.
Let's assume you are a teacher (I have no idea what you do). You can teach all you want, but the student is the learner, and if the student doesn't want to learn, he won't learn.
Let's assume you are a business owner. You can offer good jobs, but if the potential employee won't show up and do the job, he isn't going to be paid.
I mean, it's not like this is rocket science. Telling someone nice things to make them feel good is destructive, unless you are telling them the truth. And everyone knows that they must live up to their own internal standards to feel worthy, earn their own self-respect. As Aretha said, "If you don't respect yourself, ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot!"
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