Thank you kindly for your response. I appreciate your time. There is certainly always more to learn and ways to expand our knowledge base as human beings. I understand the need fir an objective measure to evaluate student performance. I guess I wonder why the standardized tests are implemented so early, pre-school or kindergarten? Why is the curriculum set toward test prep and test performance? Certainly, the axiologiical principles set forth, which the public is led to believe, is that this “objective” measure will help student achievement, level the playing field, increase performance. Yet none of the research indicates this to be true. Why is axiology reduced to the Ethical component while denying the Aesthetic component? And what has happened to incorporating Ontology in to the systemic milieu instead of a prescribed positivist or, at the other end of the continuum, authoritarian control? Education is no longer a platform for exploration in the early years, but rather a conditioning to an authoritarian model that is based largely on a business model. The philosophical principles of knowledge and knowledge acquisition need to be reinstated as the primary focus of primary education. How do we create change?