Audited education squeezes out teaching that confronts students with difficulty

Evidence

But now that teaching is itself being pressed into becoming a service industry (delivering measurable outputs in the form of exam results) and teachers are required to be both child minders and entertainers, those working in the education system who still want to induce students into the complicated enjoyments that can be derived from going beyond the pleasure principle, from encountering something difficult, something that runs counter to one’s received assumptions, find themselves in an embattled minority. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1217

Categorization

• SEED: Could be an essay on how measurable-output pressure in education kills the pedagogy of productive difficulty.
• XREF: connects to: Exam-driven schooling makes students resist learning beyond the syllabus — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1671; Education’s service-industry turn makes intellectual difficulty embattled — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1217; Education suffers a crisis worsened by progressives disregarding teaching

Broader Connections

• Education’s service-industry turn makes intellectual difficulty embattled #corroborates (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1217