Gary Bartz on Jazz Education

I respect Bartz' right to a point of view based on what he has personally  heard and seen of jazz education and its products, but it seems very facile and uncritical to think or propose that there is some monolithic thing called 'jazz education' that is all 'backwards'. He is using his (considerable) weight as a musician of note to lend creedence to a subjective personal observation of a very small sample.  A broad-stroke condemnation doesn't seem either helpful or truthful. He himself teaches at Oberlin so does that mean he is the only one who can get it right, the only one who can't see the very obvious problems of which he speaks? If so, it seems very convenient for him.

Like it or not, we are now living in an era where the majority of jazz musicians out there have some degree of formal education.  Brad Meldhau, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ethan Iverson, Joshua Redman etc etc etc.   Do they all sound the same as Bartz suggests?  Do they 'have no ears' ?  There are great jazz educators and institutions and there are terrible ones too.  Some get it 'frontwards' and some get it backwards.  Do they all teach the same way and turn out students that sound the same way?

The video seems to be excerpted from something longer.  It would be interesting to hear his comments in their full and original context.  Perhaps in that context it would come across as less self-congratulatory, narrow and poorly-considered.