The Invented History of 'The Factory Model of Education'

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

You can clearly see the ghosts of the factory in the traditional education system's ‘production line’ approach, with rote learning, standardization and rows of desks. The world of learning gets divided into narrower and narrower subject areas, with no apparent connection to a coherent whole.