Yes there is a growing problem, but the author as many others before him neglect the type of problem being faced. It assumes the problem is that we don't know

Yes there is a growing problem, but the author as many others before him neglect the type of problem being faced. It assumes the problem is that we don't know how to teach better, and that's just wrong. We do know how to teach people, we've done it in the past. The actual problem is one of subversion of the processes involved. There is no accountability for teachers that harm their students in a specific way (i.e. teaching maladaptive behaviors through torture). The prussian model of education has from the beginning been about creating loyal unthinking workers. That history has never changed, and the groups involved support that history through the shadows. Its subtle, but its been happening for almost a hundred years to eliminate rational thought. Torture promotes this outcome, as the experts from the 50s can attest in their written works (Lifton/Meerloo). There is a classical approach to education where you are taught to be independent and think. It came from the greeks, and stood the test of time. If you see a problem with the existing system that is cascading, you need to go back to what worked. A known working state. Its just that simple. Doing so would ruffle a lot of feathers because there are a lot of malevolent people out there in the world today, and part of evil and malevolence is a wilful blindness to the consequences of their actions.