I was at work today and was reminded of my annual competencies. Our facility has to take tests on stroke to keep us as a level one health care system. While covering the information provided I just skipped to the highlights. Thinking this would be just like all those other annual test that I have taken so many times before. I was wrong. I pass the test but it got me thinking. Our system of education is designed to fail more than educate. What I mean by fail is not in its own way wrong but it keeps those who seek to learn from actually learning.
All my life I have been tested on information taught. Memorizing Information and learning through testing has kept me from knowing more. So going back to the stroke test , the multiple choice test questions gave me opportunity to fail. If the information was to be learned then it should have been presented in such a way that should not have needed to be tested.
As an example, if I want an individual to know something I would have a list of things about the subject and present it to the receiver. The information provided fully be detailed and encompass all relevant information on that subject. If I tell you everything you need to know why should I try and deceive you in a test . The test is used for nothing more than a way to slow down the individual. To keep society from advancing at an exponential level.
My wife and I homeschool, one day it was my turn to help with math. My middle child was doing some long division and it asked him to divide and check. What was the purpose of slowing down the process. We had already covered division and now we need to reassure ourselves that we got the correct answer? Apparently this is how we have been doing it all along. We are having to check our answers by second guessing ourselves. What if we got the check wrong now we have slowed the learning process even more. We are no longer teaching to learn we are teaching to fail.
