In the teenage world you win by perfect performance on easy tests (wearing just the right clothes, answering multiple-choice questions correctly), while in the adult world you win by adequate performance on hard tests.
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The educational system is set up to train adolescents to be diligent; conveying a small amount of knowledge is merely a fortuitous side effect. Higher education used to focus on knowledge creation and transfer, but it's starting to slip into diligence training as well.
I don't think it's intentionally set up that way. I think that's just an inevitable consequence of mass production.
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Mass production contributes to the easy-tests problem. But I don't think it explains why "but I worked really hard on this" is a justification for why poor quality work should receive a good grade.
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I think that's due to individual human weakness. Telling someone who worked hard on something that it's no good is painful. Maintaining accurate, non-inflating grades requires serious discipline.
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Law of Diminishing returns ? In regards to mass production
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Interesting to think about...
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Horace Mann was an idealist who understood the nationalistic purposes of the Prussian education system. He was an intelligent and insightful man, so it's hard to credit that he thought he could harness such a system for a contrary purpose.
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Can independent thinkers be mass produced?
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