Not what is important measurable
"The mad month of August gets ever madder, as the education system plunges deeper each year into the one thing that obsesses it: how many pupils and institutions did exactly how well in an exam. It is the greatest of political fallacies, to make what is measurable important, not what is important measurable." (The Guardian.)
I've got a trouble with exact understanding the wording "not what is important measurable" in the paragraph above. I have that gut feeling that it is somehow opposite in meaning to "what is measurable important" but nevertheless I cannot pinpoint it semantically in such a word combination.
Thank you.
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The structure here is: make + noun phrase + adjective . For example, She makes me happy. " So, the whole sentence means: It is a fallacy to make the things that are measurable important instead of focusing on and evaluating (measuring) the important things.
- The structure here is: make + noun phrase + adjective .
- For example, She makes me happy.
- " So, the whole sentence means: It is a fallacy to make the things that are measurable important instead of focusing on and evaluating (measuring) the important things.
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The structure here is: make + noun phrase + adjective.
For example,
She makes me happy.
In your example, we have: "make [what is measurable] important."
In the above, "what is measurable" means "the things that are measurable."
So, the whole sentence means:
It is a fallacy to make the things that are measurable important instead of focusing on and eva
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