The single most important educational theory in schools and universities today is not derived from Dewey, Piaget, R. S. Peters, or any other significant researcher or theorist in education. It is "public choice" theory, which is derived from neo-classical economics. It is this theory that licenses talk of "accountability"; "provider capture"; "outcomes"; and "delivery" as the most significant aspects of education, and thereby sets aside the discourses of "responsibility"; "professionalism"; "social justice"; and "learning." Public choice theory is defined by its proponents as the application...