If you test the students for their own self-esteem (the good feelings) or the do-good purpose of their lives to change everybody and everything else, I’ll bet you get top grades.
Who says anything about teaching those traditional (but useful) topics?
In the local elementary school, there is often an outbreak of head lice right after Christmas. This is when the students from south of the border return from their holiday family visits. When Mrs. Chandler offered to check the children for lice, she was informed that the school had already checked the children and they had found no lice. They had found nits, but no lice, so the kids had no lice. Educationalists crack me up.