'recommoditization' of labour (Bauman) and schools/teaching

I just started reading Zygmunt Bauman's new book, Consuming Life and I couldn't help but think of the state of education when I read this paragraph in which Bauman responds to the idea of the 'zero drag' employee.

The art of the 'recommoditization' of labour in its novel, updated form is singularly unsuited to being learnt from the unwieldy, notoriously inert, tradition-bound, change-resistant and routine-loving governmental bureaucracy; and that bureaucracy is singularly unsuited to cultivating, teaching and inculcating it. The job is better left to the consumer markets, already known to thrive on and be adept in training their customers in strikingly similar arts - and it is. Shifting the task of recommoditizing labour to the market is the deepest meaning of the state's conversion to the cult of 'deregulation' and 'privatization' (Bauman, 2007, p.10)

By the way a zero drag employee (Silicon Valley jargon) would be:

...a person with no previous bonds, commitments or emotional attachments, and shunning new ones; a person ready to take on any task that comes by and prepared to instantly readjust and refocus their own inclinations, embracing new priorities and abandoning those previously acquired in short order; a person used to a setting where 'getting used to' as such - to a job, or a skill, or a way of doing things - is unwelcome and so imprudent; last but not least, a person who will leave the company when they are no longer needed, without complaint or litigation (Bauman, 2007, p. 10)

If that last paragraph doesn't sound like the ideal student of VELS I don't know what does.

Reference

Bauman, Z. (2007). Consuming life. Cambridge: Polity Press.