Why Johnny Can’t Read or Win Wars


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Johnny isn’t able to think critically – and that’s the point of a corporate-business model of education.

Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight:

Numbers are often neither definitive nor unequivocal, yet we continue to elevate them and profess our belief in them. The cautionary words of the economist Jacob Viner echo here: “When you can measure it, when you can express it in numbers, your knowledge is still of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.”

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