WSJ, stop making me think... I'm enjoying my Kool Aid

Friends take a look at this article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303505504577406603829668714.html

Ok, so, MY biggest problem with education is that all knowledge begins with God.

My second is America's seeming denial of the logical fact that our most intelligent men and women in history were not always products of our current public educational system. Really!? Multiple choice test scores mean smart kids? Where did all the classical education models go?

Yeah I know engineers are tested via multiple choice tests, but do you want all their education to be all knowledge and regurgitation? No projects? Just auto-cad?

What about your doctor?

To the Teachers and Administrators:

If I can't get students to do well on a test that means, as a teacher I failed? Hummm... What about thinking logically? What about moral social interaction? What about firing the ancients and understanding that "years of experience" isn't the same as "wise."

High Test Scores don't mean we'll educated.

Please can we take the education system and revolt so old people, who can't even debate right (I'm looking at you RomneyBama) aren't making the decisions for educating the kids? Who put government in charge of educating all the kids in the US anyways?

I know this is a seemingly bitter rant, but that doesn't negate the fact that there is a big problem in our public daycare system... uhh I mean Public Education System.

What's the goal?

Compete with the world? That's our goal? So 'Merica can compete? Then we need to not educate every one that can't pay for it. Don't worry I want to teach everybody... I just don't want to compare my education apple to education oranges. Hey Globalization isn't bad, by the way! Pretty soon Universities are going to be full of foreigners watching via Skype (or something).

What if our goal was to train parents to individually care for their kid's educational path? What if we took each kid to their level plus one? Or to their maximum by the end of school? What if we focused on their strengths, while shoring in their weaknesses, in an attempt to drill down deep into a interested strength?

Drop the testing folly. Or at least change it to something that really tells people how their doing.

End of rant. Post your thoughts below!