When did education become a competition and why does John V.C. Nye want to make it more of a competition?

I stupidly thought the goal of education was for everyone to learn, but I guess the process of education is to stratify the populace.

I hated, and still hate the gamesmanship that takes place with teachers/professors. The trick questions on tests, etc. I never had the patience for any of the nonsense. For things that were nuanced I understood the reason to test on details, but to just play games, always pissed me off. I was an OK student because I wouldn't play their games.

During college I was a Comp Sci major and the Business Majors needed to take two computer science classes. Being the entrepreneur that I was, I started tutoring as many of the girls as their parents would pay my $25 and hour tutoring fee with a money back if you don't get a B or higher guarantee. In the first two years everyone of my students got A's. I made sure every student understood the material, their programming projects were always unique and I made the student do all the work. At the end of the class everyone of my students knew the material cold.

I was so successful that they Comp Sci department and the Business department tried to ban me from tutoring, not to mention that 3 students switched majors to Comp Sci and a couple others added Comp Sci as a minor. Their argument was that I was ruining the grade distribution in the classes I tutored, I guess the Comp Sci courses were weed out classes for the Business Majors. I had letters from every parent and every student, the University President laughed in the faces of the department heads and he dismissed me from the meeting, and from what I heard he spent 40 minutes yelling at them for being stupid and degrading the reputation of the University. Of course I somehow never got an A on any programming projects again, but it wasn't payback, even as a senior when in one class I wrote everyone else's programs for them, just to prove a point, everyone else got an A, I got a C+.

Education is not about learning, it'a a business, just like health care isn't about making people healthy, it's about profit and loss.