Herein lies the problem. People in control of the system are afraid to trust. It's a tradeoff for them, and they choose heavily standarized education that delivers mediocre but predictable and consistent results over an education that could deliver significantly better results but is much harder to quantify. They also get measured and promoted based on some performance metrics , so it's not surprising that they decided to screw up the system to make it more quantifiable.
Herein lies the problem. People in control of the system are afraid to trust. It's a tradeoff for them, and they choose heavily standarized education that delivers mediocre but predictable and consistent results over an education that could deliver significantly better results but is much harder to quantify. They also get measured and promoted based on some performance metrics , so it's not surprising that they decided to screw up the system to make it more quantifiable.