Great analysis on repetition, branding, politics, and education here. The fetish of the “correct answer” certainly lies at the core of current educational tradition though I think a lot of folks are questioning this now. The problem may be that most educational theory does not easily accommodate alternatives. Without this accommodating theory, Rhizomatic learning may be seen as largely peripheral – relevant to informal learning but disconnected from formal education. I think you’ve been asking this question for a long time: What does education look like without a curriculum, without (imposed) objectives and benchmarks? In order to move toward and understanding of this, do you think that we will need a paradigm shift in the Kuhnian sense? How far can we go with theory misaligned to practice before the theory breaks?