The ratio of non-leaders to leaders is huge because most groups have only one leader. So why do schools teach “leadership” instead of “followership”? It would be far more beneficial to a society if it developed good followers. Amirite?

+10 The ratio of non-leaders to leaders is huge because most groups have only one leader. So why do schools teach “leadership” instead of “followership”? It would be far more beneficial to a society if it developed good followers. Amirite?

by Anonymous 10 years ago

Even with being taught to be leaders, there's still few of them and there needs to be leaders, there's no reason to make less of them. A society full of people taught to be followers seems like it would easily manipulated.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Maybe this post is like a shopping cart with four good wheels. It goes wherever you want it...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's all perspective. That's how I think it would be unless someone else says another example of how a society like that would be, then I'd know someone else's perspective. The way I kind of imagine it is that we're all on the surface and deep under us is a diamond (the truth). I imagine a sort of mine being dug by us, that's us trying to think our way to the truth. Talking to people about their perspectives is like combining your mines and coming closer to the diamond.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yes, people would more easily be manipulated in such a society. I would not like to be part of the that society (unless I was a leader) but I do think that such a society would benefit (in that it would succeed in its goals). It's just that I, as an individual, do not allows agree with all of the goals of my society. But the shopping cart potd made me think, if we are all leaders we'd all be going in different directions and nothing would get done.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Except on gravel or grass.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

In other words. This post is a follower of you, the leader.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

But if we teach everyone to follow, who will lead?

by Anonymous 10 years ago

You

by Anonymous 10 years ago

and of course I am an anarchist so I don't give a damn about society. But logically it would be better to teach people both leadership and followership because good followers get better paying jobs than do rebellious workers.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

I am definitely not a leader.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

No followers without leaders and vice -a-versa. Not everyone can lead. You either lead, follow, or get the **** out the way. The problem is that most followers do it blindly.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

Interesting point. Maybe because when people know leadership, then being a good follower just follows (no sort of wordplay intended). Like how a square is a rectangle, but not vice versa. But

by Anonymous 10 years ago