"corrupting the entire reason we have education in the first place"

"If you've talked to people who have succeeded, what they almost all have in common is that they've failed a hundred times before they succeed. 

And what separates them from people who aren't successful, isn't that they succeeded, it's that they failed more than the other people did." 

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"No one I know takes standardized tests for a living. So why are we using standardized tests to see if you're going to be good ... when we don't have standardized tests after you take it?

It's infected the entire marketing eco-system of education, because famous colleges are famous because they are picky about your SAT scores.

Parents want their kids to go to a famous college. Parents push their school to create kids who will get into a famous college by doing well on the SAT. All which is corrupting the entire reason we have education in the first place. 

If ... the questions are not "How did your students do on the SAT?", but instead we say, the SAT makes no sense, famous colleges are a scam, we need to create a different thing ... Then change will start to happen."