Reply #19: Nonteachers who want to run the show from a central location have used think tanks

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and white papers published in the media to turn public sentiment against teachers for decades.
America's schools in the 19th century were teacher-run. When some fat cats wanted worker-widgets to be mass produced who would be less likely to oppose their authority, they organized certain small boards and committees to sweep the country almost overnight with change. Every time they want change, they stir up crises and blame the teachers. It's what they did back in 1910, and again and again every twenty years since. Teachers have been disempowered through these processes so that they will end up forced into the role of pedagogue and out of the role of educator.

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” Plutarch