{"id":23633,"date":"2025-01-20T09:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T08:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/?p=23633"},"modified":"2025-01-20T09:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T08:32:49","slug":"the-standard-of-education-nothing-but-a-pretext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/en\/the-standard-of-education-nothing-but-a-pretext\/","title":{"rendered":"The standard of education (nothing but a pretext)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>THE GREAT SCAM. Opinion Section by David Cerd\u00e1<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1>The standard of education (nothing but a pretext)<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23697\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23697\" src=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nivel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nivel.jpg 900w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nivel-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nivel-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nivel-518x330.jpg 518w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nivel-270x172.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">wal_172619. \/ Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline-block;\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/deed.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license noopener noreferrer\">License Creative Commons <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/by.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/nc.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/nd.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11480\" src=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/David-Cerda-oK-cuadrada-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mdp-avatar-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidcerdag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>David Cerd\u00e1<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is a loud chorus determined <strong>to deny the evidence<\/strong>: the standard of education we provide to young people, particularly in state schools, has been declining at an alarming rate for years. The most tragic aspect of this \u201cmove along\u201d mantra is that it is chanted in the name of progressivism by the same individuals who decry \u201cfake news, disinformation, and ignorance from the far right\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>The educational standard is a sham<\/strong>\u201d; those who are complicit in the wreckage (whom we shall not name to avoid giving them undue attention) go all out. Simultaneous translation: \u201cMove along, there\u2019s nothing to see here. We\u2019re manufacturing subjects and precarious workers, so don\u2019t disturb the process\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Let me first clarify that the myth of a golden age in education is nonsense that no reasonably serious person has ever asserted. Criticising the current state of education does not imply nostalgia for Francoist national-Catholic schooling, as some foolishly suggest\u2014those who, out of self-interest, corporatism, or mediocrity, seek to deter such comparisons. The point here is to state something as reasonable as this: that the standard of education is either improving or deteriorating; it would be a remarkable coincidence for it to remain stagnant. And to address this seriously means not looking at the extremes of the Gaussian bell curve but rather its bulge\u2014because, as Ortega y Gasset observed, <strong>the character of a nation is determined by its average citizen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The school enrolment rate has risen almost continuously. Granted; that is a significant advancement. But what does that have to do with the widely acknowledged reality\u2014in universities and workplaces\u2014that the average skill level of recent graduates has significantly declined over the past 15 years? As Juan Jes\u00fas Donaire, Dean of Sciences at the UAB, put it: \u201cWe\u2019re now receiving students who can\u2019t even add fractions, something unimaginable ten years ago\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do we mean by \u201cstandard\u201d or \u201cpreparedness\u201d?<\/strong> It\u2019s simple: the ability to function effectively on a personal, civic, and professional level. The state of the first is reflected in the alarming mental health statistics, which, unsurprisingly, the \u201cmove along\u201d crowd either ignores or blames entirely on the nasty businessman\u2014a simplistic argument if ever there was one. As for the second, take a look at what we vote for and put up with in Parliament\u2014no matter what they do to us or how much they lie\u2014the polarisation and the cesspool of fake news. And if you want to gauge whether employers find what they need\u2014not just in technical skills but in problem-solving and professionalism\u2014just ask them. For clarity, this isn\u2019t about business owners; there are thousands of people hiring who don\u2019t know whether to slit their wrists or let them grow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this some kind of Armageddon?<\/strong> Not at all. The fallacy of exaggeration is well-worn, so anyone intending to use it should discard it and instead view this cry as, first, a sign of civic concern that should resonate with more people, and second, an expression of ambition in the best sense of the word. Because what we cannot accept is that education\u2014the foundation of democracy\u2014is regressing. These eyes, which will one day rest beneath the earth, have seen an education scholar boasting about students\u2019 appalling spelling under the excuse that \u201cat least they\u2019re reading\u201d. What those who compare today\u2019s education to the \u201cdark ages\u201d really exude\u2014trotting out anecdotes about strict teachers with rulers well into the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century\u2014is mediocrity and condescension. At this stage, one would settle for mediocrities who, in their attempts to argue, stop citing <strong>Garc\u00eda Alas and Arg\u00fcelles<\/strong> (1922!) or recycling that false quote attributed to Socrates. Let\u2019s be clear: it\u2019s precisely because older generations have always criticised younger ones that we must investigate whether education is advancing or declining. And for the past ten or twenty years, ours has been declining, little by little.<\/p>\n<p>People are not stupid. Despite not being wealthy, some are willing to sacrifice a fortune for private education. <strong>If you think they\u2019re all affluent, do your homework<\/strong>: there are families cutting back on essentials to afford it. That, in itself, should serve as a warning sign. Why, in a society with stagnant wealth over the past century, would parents invest in something the state system should provide at no extra cost? <strong>Presumably, the education deniers see these parents as elitists or fools<\/strong>. The only explanation for such an attitude is that the deniers are detached from reality, comfortably entrenched in their bubble.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of ulterior motives: follow the money of those who peddle these ideas. \u201cFollow the money,\u201d as the journalists in Pakula\u2019s <em>All the President\u2019s Men<\/em> would say\u2014ah, those were the days, when journalists served truth and nothing else. Do we really think people lie for free?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most prepared generation in history\u201d: what a shameless claim.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<strong>educational EVIDENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rights:\u00a0<strong>Creative Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a loud chorus determined to deny the evidence: the standard of education we provide to young people, particularly in state schools, has been declining at an alarming rate for years. The most tragic aspect of this \u201cmove along\u201d mantra is that it is chanted in the name of progressivism by the same individuals who decry \u201cfake news, disinformation, and ignorance from the far right\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"1","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[2384,2380,2383],"class_list":["post-23633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion-en","tag-education-deniers","tag-educational-standard","tag-sham"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The standard of education (nothing but a pretext) - Educational Evidence<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There is a loud chorus determined to deny the evidence: the standard of education we provide to young people, particularly in state schools, has been declining at an alarming rate for years. 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