1. Invent a subject 2. Invent an exam to examine what pupils don't know about the subject 3. Teach to the exam. 4. Pupils doing well at the exam proves that that method of teaching is the best 5. If pupils fail where the best teaching is going on, it's the pupils' fault

With mainstream articles on education and Sold a Story 2 coming out, we are about to experience a period of intense gaslighting. It’s already started. We will be told, repeatedly, that nobody is—or has ever been—against explicit teaching. Which is easily falsified, but these falsifications will be dismissed. We will be told, repeatedly, that all teachers use explicit teaching. Which is true to some extent because the alternatives are so ineffective. But they’re using it without knowing the research and often under pressure to do something else. Why do people try to deny the debate in this way? Why don’t they just come out and make an honest argument?