I mostly understand your position, but I have one perspective. > in essence then you are essentially arguing that it is impossible to test an education. Educa

I mostly understand your position, but I have one perspective. > in essence then you are essentially arguing that it is impossible to test an education. Education can teach techniques, such as multiplication table or spellings, and that part of education is easy to test. However, education also builds the foundation---of learning how to study, or of how to educate yourself, or of how to be intellectually responsible---and that part is hard to test. The effect might be only visible years after you leave the school, after you go through tough problems as a responsible adult. I'd love the test-based quantitative approach, and I'm sure there are researches, but this required time span to run test-implement cycle seems to make it very difficult issue to tackle.