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I think the schooling system wouldn't do a service trying to teach the kids how to behave, like how to take failure. They cannot even teach people reading comprehension as the statistics for reading comprehension keep drooping year after year, let alone teach them morality or how to respond to situations, or what most everyone know before they are of age to be herded into school, or that you don't get born walking and talking. The school system cannot even teach them reading, and has no problem with that, but scores on tests devised by teachers to show how much they learn should come under great scrutiny especially when each year students get tested less rigorously or with as much detail or depth as before, and when concepts such as present tense and past tense are renamed to active voice and passive voice and terms in algebra and mathematics go through this seemingly needless change as well, it's hardly called education anymore and more aptly named indoctrination and brainwashing, the scores do well to make for the appearance of learned, regardless that they mean less than they meant before, and they get more and more given, and they appear as the product of teaching, or good teaching.

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conclusion (38) · 8 years ago

Fantastic, love this article. An important issue that I wholeheartedly agree with.

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amberyooper (69) · 8 years ago

Not knowing something simply means lack of knowlege. That is the standard human condition. We are born knowing nothing and have to learn everything that we will ever know.
I agree with you that teaching students to pass a test on a subject teaches them fear of failure. It does not teach them how to deal with failure or how to respond to failing at something. It does not teach them that failing at something is part of our life experience.

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baah (61) · 8 years ago