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Chilli Lokito
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schools dont educate !!
March 4, 2005 - 11:48 AM
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‘Testing raises standards in school.’
‘Schools don’t educate, they teach their pupils how to pass tests.’
Is either of these views correct?
this is sample test of Oxford Law school couple of years earlier.. i want to kno ur views guys ...
this is what I think:
Both of these views are correct. Education had one main original purpose, which was to educate kids so that this formal education would gain them benefits in later life. However, with all changes in all aspects of life, this main purpose had been changed significantly. education’s top importance had been converted into final exams which are used as determinant of passing or failing. why these two things have to be challenged in order to get the original, conservative, better purpose back?
Education can be defined as the material studied either formally or informally to gain knowledge in aspects that have been specialised or chosen. However, in Australia nowadays a lot of kids have no choice apart from studying maths, science, or humanity subjects at school. When they do, university will not accept them due to the strict requirements of the subjects mentioned. High ranked, top universities also often have their strict, high, cut-off scores as the entry requirements for some areas of study. Automatically, in adjusting this method of entrance, high or secondary schools in Australia have changed the purpose of educating into passing tests. Everything that is learnt at school intended to be done for getting into desired universities.
Non-TEE (TEE is a final exams which score is used to apply into uni) students are often considered as ‘inferior’ or ‘not smart enough’ by not doing all the hard subjects. Every subject is, of course, equally hard. They’re really relative and depend on everyone’s wants and abilities. Unluckily, the bitter reality is that Australian kids often feel pressured by this ‘must’ of going to university, to get a title, to please people and parents by what they’re going to achieve. The high number of TEE takers comparing to non-TEE ones is the most obvious example can be stated. With the majority of students wanting to get into universities which require sensible TEE scores (something like Law and Medicine is a bit insensible in stating their cut-off ranks), teachers, as people who are responsible for teaching, motivating, and leading the students, now teaching their pupils for one main purpose: to make them pass with pleasing scores so they can get into higher stage of institution.
Students are brainwashed. It might sounds a bit extreme but they actually are. Students’ perspective of education has changed into passing test than learning. Students study to get highest mark possible rather than learning things useful in life. An example for this is some irrelevant subjects that are ridiculously hard and often could not be used in later life.
SO WHY TESTING RAISES STANDARD IN SCHOOL?
of coz, the higher the score, that school would gain some 'we're good school' image, and lots more students would get in and economically speaking, that's a huge subjective benefits for school, not to bettering the society as a whole
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Re: schools dont educate !!
March 6, 2005 - 09:37 AM
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interesting post, testing does raise standards in schools - standrads being teh governments view on how well that particualr school is performing, and tests also only teach kids how to pass tests - free thinking has gone out the window.
growing up in the rural aussie public school system (i was luckily graced with many good teachers) i learnt that learning is not restricted to teh classroom - and that more of the important things in life is what you can learn about yourself - i think i have a unique perspective on many things and i can safely say that throughout high school i was one of maybe 2-3 that were smart enough to pass everything without having to waste days upon days of studying - i knew that altough you need high scores to get into uni to get what you want its more important to study smart and learn how to relax - it is important for students these days to learn that you do not have to work yourselves into the ground durin gteh years that are meant to be the most fun - education systems need to change their approach to teaching as the current system is resulting in higher numbers of stress related suicide amongst teens and general health issues realting to stress. its not worth burning yourself out over school when there are so many more important things in life.
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March 17, 2005 - 09:49 AM
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And i wanna get into law..they need RIDICULOUSLY high score like 97.00 for your TEE final score.
that is really.... i mean, a competent lawyers don't have to pass that ridiculously hard maths if they're not good at it! or to do some other random subjex like human biology where their area of law wouldbe taxation ... that is so.. i dunnow. there's something definitely wrong (and should be corrected) with the current system...
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