I believe that most schools see their job as preparing young people to make the best of their lives. This is a difficult thing to measure; even harder to put into a league table. The trouble is that we all want different things from our lives: to get a good job, to understand the world we live in, to take control of our destiny, to be creative and appreciate creativity.
Sadly, as happens all too often, difficulties in measuring what we really want to achieve lead us to seek proxies – measures that are simpler, shorter and more tangible. The proxies take on a life of their own and crowd out the original purpose. Organisations adapt themselves to “game” the proxy measure and eventually we have completely lost sight of where we began.
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