Imagine if the only way you could read was to get together in a group of 30 and have a professional reader read out loud to you. How often would you read? How fast would you read? How much would you read? The excellence of the reader, the mellifluousness of his voice, would be largely irrelevant. The primary problem with education is the group fetish that has pervaded it ever since the Prussians pioneered the one-size-fits-all approach.
This is a paragraph in Attacking the Metric, a post via which he also points out standardized tests don't work particularly well. I would go so far as to say, if you see a bureaucrat measuring anything, you can be sure whatever is actually is important has been hidden and will likely be harmed if the measurements are used to justify policy. There's a nasty tendency to chase statistics in lieu of profit and they keep doing it even if you carefully explain to them how this will ultimately destroy the institution!
Ah, but don't forget the point of the paragraph above. Although he doesn't address it directly, Vox clearly establishes private schools (as most of them are currently organized) are inferior to home schooling and/or private tutors.
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