Why Every Student Will NOT Succeed With the New Education Law

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3. Why? Because education is a devil's playground.

Which is to say that education is one of the perfect platforms for political, economic, social and ideological confrontation. It's something everyone has experienced in one of its various forms, through a process few have ever actually paused to contemplate, but upon which everyone has the correct opinion.

It's full of seemingly un-resolvable opposing dialectics from which 'solutions' are selected for the next round of educational reform, aka gear-grinding.

It can be seen as an enormously impersonal industrial operation structured to impose social will through a process expected to provide artisanal satisfaction of curiosity in a child by a knowledgeable caring adult, who is often characterized in fiction and personal anecdote as a person whose performance we could exceed, if we weren't too deeply engaged in more important, and rewarding, careers.

The notion of a 'one-size' fits all industrial approach to education is preposterous, the notion that teachers are shaping brains into a shared world view imposed by a distant, incompetent, oft immoral government draconian. Yet, the efficiency of scale. and the insertion of public funds, demands of application of 'best methods' of process control and accountability, including well defined training and licensure, common standards, effective quality control, and it seems ... freedom from imposed mandates yet imposition public flogging when things don't go well.