No it doesn't. And if you succeed you will simply be measuring an uninteresting but manageable subset of the problem which will then become in some people's ey

No it doesn't. And if you succeed you will simply be measuring an uninteresting but manageable subset of the problem which will then become in some people's eyes the definition of the problem. Education is supposed to be about teaching people to think, to give them the tools with which to do it, to be able to evaluate, criticise, invent, etc.