Brief thought exercise: why do we keep applying business and market principles to the idea of education?

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This will be a pretty short post, because if I wrote everything I wanted to write about it, I'd be here for hours and probably get off into a series of meandering sub-points that wouldn't ultimately benefit anyone. Lest you think I have no qualifications to discuss this topic, though, a qui…