I love this. I love what you say about operant conditioning especially. This is the problem for me, the isolation and the decontextualization and the compartmentalization. Science in one room, geography in another, English in another and maths somewhere else. The cross-overs between these things allow us to innovate, to build new ideas and to create something from something we've never seen before. This right or wrong, reward and punishment drives kids into a cattle box and teaches them to think exactly the way everyone else does; that way they're controllable. Like cattle. Love this.