I'm currently reading Linchpin by Seth Godin so your fifth point resonates with me. In his book he points out that in many cases companies want to employee the

I'm currently reading Linchpin by Seth Godin so your fifth point resonates with me. In his book he points out that in many cases companies want to employee the cheapest labor possible and the best way to do this is to make jobs generic such that the people doing the jobs are easily replaceable. > “If human beings are a natural resource for factories, then your goal as a factory owner is to get good ones, cheap. So captains of industry and government reorganized our society around this goal.” He basically feels that this is what has lead to the government focusing so much on standardized testing. Basically just forcing schools to stamp out identical copies that can fill the generic jobs.