ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses why , the what, and the how — that is, the how-ness — of education. The notion of the purpose of education is about the educators inviting students to partake in the passions for content and understanding. There is a critique in Denmark, a debate going on, about whether or not the Visible Learning approach could end up being a kind of educational nihilism. Education is an ethical business and it is the value and imperatives of how one applies the efficiencies, research design, and measurement to impact on educational problems. The process of ontology of education is something different, and the ontology of education, in principle, does not have a Procrustes problem. Most schooling is for sorting the labor and dole queues, producing little valuable learning, and in particular, there is little need for the topics taught in most high schools or universities — students strive for the degree, not the content of the degree.
