Agree with all your points except for #7. Knowing a lot of facts may make someone successful on a TV game show, but in real life what counts is what you can do with the facts that you learn. This requires the ability to think and to draw some conclusions from the facts. Learning facts is a necessary but not sufficient part of education.
I don’t always agree with it either, to be honest. I teach history- most of what I teach is fact-based, or should be. Facts do often speak for themselves, and a great danger when you get beyond that and try to teach people how to think, is that there is a pretty good chance of teaching people what to think- and that is just plain wrong.... And, measuring thinking skills is one of those areas where things get a bit nebulous.