In fact, the incessant testing of the last 70 years has helped reduce education to mere training. Don't get me wrong. The list goes on and on.
Education is so much more than accumulated facts and skills.
Education means giving thought to why we call some actions good and other evil. It means educating the whole person, not just packing the brain with facts. They've signed the Proclamation for the Separation of School and State. Government doesn't run Sunday school and it shouldn't be involved Monday, school, Tuesday school, Wednesday school, etc. KNX, ask not that test scores be delivered on time.