In the last few years, I’ve heard a lot of complaints that doctors don’t do real doctoring anymore. They do blood work and run various other scans and tests, but they often can’t seem to figure out the problem if a patient doesn’t fit the cookie-cutter mold that those tests and scans can diagnose.
A similar thing is happening in today’s education system. Politicians, teachers, and other experts—the education doctors so to speak—all run madly around trying to figure out why our kids are performing so dismally in school, using Test XYZ or employing big data to track their progress. And like the doctors, such emphasis on tests and tracking often misses the real problem with today’s education system: mass schooling is one big hustle—or swindle—that can often hurt children more than it helps them.
