What's unfortunate about such comments is that such departures from the norm actually are considered bad ("cheating") according to the ideology of mainstream ed

What's unfortunate about such comments is that such departures from the norm actually are considered bad ("cheating") according to the ideology of mainstream education. The article's author wasn't the only teacher with the bright idea to have collaborative tests, where he was willing to answer whatever the students asked. I know of at least one teacher who was forced to stop. Education could look very different, and more diverse. Universities have certain functions in society. If they don't fulfill those functions, they won't get government and corporate funding. Even Salman Khan explains that one important function of schools is to subjugate, fashioning people into obedient cogs. (In his "The One World School House", in the chapter "The Prussian Model".)