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My British state education really did feel like "memorise just enough to jump through these arbitrary hoops which keep the government off our backs" sometimes.
by BoxOfRain 5y ago
My British state education really did feel like "memorise just enough to jump through these arbitrary hoops which keep the government off our backs" sometimes. It's very exam-driven rather than learning for its own sake and apparently it's got even worse since schools started transitioning to academies and Gove's reforms took effect.
- cabalamat 5y agoOne fix for this is to have exam questions such that you cannot pass them unless you have true understanding rather than rote memorisation.
- nicoburns 5y agoThat's one part of the equation, but it only works if you have teachers and a curriculum that are capable of imparting that understanding.
- fiftyacorn 5y agoNormally the curriculum was split between knowledge and understanding, and problem solving. You could memorize the first part and not the second part. The problem solving sorted out who got the grades