Phillip · @Allidoisphillip
9th Jan 2019 from TwitLonger
An issue of our educational system
I am going to start this “essay”, I guess you could call it, by simply saying this, our educational system is not designed to benefit the intellectuals into becoming productive, rather it is designed to benefit the people of lower, and average intelligence. Before I continue, no, this is not the next form of narcissism, this is my theory why it is designed to benefit the people of lower or average intelligence. Before I could continue, I do not discriminate against people of lower, or average intelligence when I say that, this issue in itself is usually controverted quite a lot in the means of deniance of one of the few issues where you do not have to manipulate the facts and statistics to reach a conclusion hold quite a lot controversial beliefs my. This might not be a popular opinion, rather it is an uncommon opinion which I particularly find worrying. I self, but one of the reasons I choose this particular controversial belief on this exam, is to bring light to this rather unknown and unpopular opinion. Neuro science has proved, that the further your intelligence grows, the more likely you are to be unachieved in life. The further your intelligence goes, you are less interested in rather useless, and to you, rather uninteresting subjects. The example I like to point to to bring light to this theory, is the literature majors in colleges. I had a conversation with one of my friends with this rather unpopular issue, and he could actually relate to my theory. People who are passionate in reading, passionate in learning new things, find it hard and rather uninteresting to major in one of the few majors they are passionate about. Why? Because the knowledge distributed in such schools is not of persons interest, rather it is pushed upon people to:
“Hey, read this, this, and this, not what you’re interested in, but rather what WE think you are interested in”. The matter of fact is, they take away peoples’ ability to choose, and rather decide that it is best for all, for the collective few to decide upon the masses. That is one of the examples I like to point to. You could argue that if you would give people ability to choose in such colleges, what makes you think they would bother to read at all, when there is no risk of costs which would outweigh the benefit? I disagree with such an assessment. That could rather be applied to middle schoolers, but not to such colleges. Why? Because if you would give people the ability to choose what to read in such colleges, rather than for the collective few to decide upon them, they would choose to read, or write, about such things that they are passionate, or they are interested about. Also, to get back to the other part of that argument, which insinuates that there is ultimately no costs of a loss, thus people would not even bother to be productive. I disagree with that assessment as well. There is always a cost of a loss in such system, when proposing this, I am not saying abolish tests and exams, what I’m saying, is to give people the ability to choose what to write, what to read, and what to talk about, in such system. The abolishment of the tests and exams is another issue I find interesting. Now that I’m done with that, I am going to focus on that particular issue. I heard a really interesting quote that can precisely explain my view, and my “solution” for this. The quote goes like this “To propose the most efficient, and most effective, solution for a complexed issue, you should not instantly try to propose a solution, but rather ask questions about such issue”. So, to go on with this. The issue with exams, and genuinely tests, is that they do not investigate individuals learning ability, but rather investigate individuals memorizing ability. The basic structure of exams, and tests, do not apply for learning, but rather memorizing. If you’d consider the time constrains of exams, and tests. Lets’ make a hypothesis, lets’ assume that I have 45 minutes to answer 20 questions. That in itself, tests my ability of how much time it takes me to put down on the paper, it’s all about how much information I can get down onto the page. It doesn’t measure my ability to fully comprehend, and understand the concepts that I’m writing about. However, for now at least, I have not fully formed a solution onto this complexed issue. Which is one of the reasons why I do not tend to talk about issues on which I have not fully formed an opinion on. However, as that quote stated, I personally believe that to conclude the most efficient, and most effective solution on a complexed issue, you do not need to instantly propose solutions, but rather ask questions.