My favourite passage in Flip the System by Jelmer Evers and Rene Kneyber:

“…it is clear that the neoliberal shift in reform has led, in a more postmodern sense, to the death of the teacher (Biesta, 2013): the death of the very idea that a teacher has something to contribute, the very idea that the teacher has a meaningful voice in relation to his work, to what he wants to achieve through his work and by which means he achieves it. Although it is a common and oft-cited belief that the quality of a system is determined by the quality of its teachers, that particular belief is of no benefit to teachers. In the neoliberal perspective, the teacher is viewed as a trained monkey, and it is simply a question of finding the right stick to beat him with, or the right brand of peanuts, to make him do the desired dance in front of the audience. The teacher is no longer viewed as a professional, but as a labourer who simply has to follow evidence-based methods in order to secure externally determined goals.”