When Chomsky speaks, we, teachers and parents, must listen carefully.
… the recent years there is a strong tendency to require assessment of
children and teachers. So they have to teach the test and the test determines
what happens to the child and what happens to the teacher. That’s guaranteed to
destroy any meaningful educational process. It means that the teacher cannot be
creative, imaginative, pay attention to individual student needs, the student
can’t pursue things the student might be interested in, because you got to memorise
something for this test tomorrow and the teacher’s future depends on it as well
as the student’s. These are all ways… well there are people that sit at their
offices, the bureaucrats and design this, like you say they are not evil people,
but they are working within a system of ideology and doctrines which turns what
they are doing in to something extremely harmful.
