I am not going to talk about the Uncertainty Principle other than to say this:
In short, this says that position and momentum are not really compatible with each other. Note - this does not say (as Chad very nicely points out) that measuring position "messes up" your measurement of momentum. So, here is my version of the educational uncertainty principle.
Here is the point I am trying to make. Standardized testing and Learning are incompatible. The more standardized testing you have, the less learning you have. Ok, maybe the Delta symbols don't make sense here, but whatever.
Standardized testing is getting out of control. Too much weight in a school and a teacher's evaluation is placed on standardized tests. And guess what, when you tell schools they will be evaluated based on standardized test scores they surprisingly try to raise test scores. The logical argument is that test scores correlate with learning. I would like to put a good analogy here, but I have nothing.
Let me just show you this awesome video about education. This is an animation added to a talk Sir Ken Robinson gave about education. The animations really help because he talks so fast. Highly recommended video.
It seems that it is too easy to get caught up in the "game of education" rather than education as a means to learning.
