You are completey correct. I am enrolled in the education department of a public university on the east coast. This groupthink world view is being absolutely jammed down our throats. Only the group approach is given any serious consideration and we are required to assess the students according to the "process" rather than the product. It is communism and dumbing down at its finest. And guess what? My fellow Stepford Students are swallowing the Kool Aid like the mindless lemmings that they are.
We need more Hillsdale Academy type schools or schools that offer a classical education based on the trivium -- grammar, logic, and rhetoric (for those who want that type of education for their children) -- instead of the touchy-feely, everybody absorbed by the collective blob we have today.
http://www.accsedu.org/ Classical schools do not necessarily have to be religious. We have a classical charter school in my state, and I bet those kids aren't sitting in little groups parcing Latin grammar among themselves, fooling around, and drawing dangerously violent stick figures.