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> Students don't learn a thing from testing. Most teachers don't either (it's supposed to help them tweak instruction, but that rarely happens). Testing isn't
by ajuc 5y ago
> Students don't learn a thing from testing. Most teachers don't either (it's supposed to help them tweak instruction, but that rarely happens).
Testing isn't supposed to teach, it's supposed to motivate kids to learn stuff they aren't interested in. "Put in the time and effort or else". On one hand it's barbaric, on another I don't think making every kid interested in everything is realistic. If you want every child to learn math you have to force at least some of them.
> Education is all about capitalism.
Education was possibly even more soul-killing and bureaucratic in communist countries.
As for oppression angle - sure, everything society does is built on power hierarchy. It's not specific to capitalism. Got any alternatives?
- solarmist 5y agoSure that's how much of it started, but that's not what most teachers are TRYING to achieve. Mostly they've been indoctrinated into the mythology of how teaching/education is SUPPOSED to work. This like policing have hypocrisy baked into so deeply no one has a clue what the reality is or how to even detangle the truth. And because it somewhat works, along with a healthy dose of hazing because it builds character/I had to go through it so this is the right way to do it, there is no call to try and rebuild it from the ground up.