Education is "flawed" and haven't evolved or changed in the past 150-ish years

Boil down to this idea, in a 3 months of class you will have to "memorize" and study certain quantity of information and then answer question which are abstractly

I think its since about 1950's that the main curriculum of school and the way they work have been quite established and since then its haven't really changed much since the beginning.

(The main idea comes from a person like me that fit a "minor" % of people that as very very hard time to fit exactly the way they ask)

And basically they found a way that seem "to work" and a quite stubborn to adapt or change their way because of the excuse that its "work" for an average number of people. The current system offer one and basically only one way to succeed a diploma and dont care about other "idea".

Boil down to this idea, in a 3 months of class you will have to "memorize" and study certain quantity of information and then answer question which are abstractly been constructed and chosen to supposedly show your knowledge in a very fixed amount of time and sometimes without outside access to information. And I have a problem with this concept also of exam in general, that mainly only provide quite a "binary" idea of proving your knowledge. For the example of true of false question, there basically 4 possibility, you know the answer and answered correctly, you misunderstood the question but knew the answer but checked the wrong one, you dont know know and you just choose randomly, either correct or not. So how do you really decipher someone that knew it and someone who just got lucky or someone that knew the answer but just misunderstood the question and so on.

So my main question is, how does this kind of question based on purely abstract stuff is supposed to show you know something, also, I dont get this concept that its all based on the what you can answer on that specific exam and during 3h and usually without outside help. I can't find any job that exist that require such huge demands and need for a "right now" answer, never heard someone in a job where their supervisor randomly pass by and "I need an answer of this random question based of everything you have learn and if you cant answer me right now I will fire you" this kind of thing doesnt really exist other than very advance degree and you dont only "know" from school but from doing your actual work!

I find also that I dont get the idea that is require that you learn such very broad amount of knowledge to supposedly prove that you know, but until you actually do the job, you could makes me learn 10 years and I will still be not sure exactly. Like when I look at a BA for teaching, there class like "children psychology", I dont want to yell "its useless" but I dont think its really necessary, may be a good tool as an addition to know but not a MUST learn, I did teaching for several years and I am pretty sure I could have the BA in less than a year but they dont care about my side experience and really want me to go through the whole BA since I dont have any kind of proof to show that I have university level of knowledge.

I have came to a problem where I'm blocked by these restriction and structure that doesnt allow much to adapt, they are asking me to climb a set of stair to go on the 50th floor but dont consider my "handicap" bad enough and ask me to basically crawl there, because they claim I should adapt to them, not them adapting to me, sure I understand but you are asking something I cant do, so what im supposed to do? I cant function with this stupid method because I cant make myself to be good in that very specific set of skill, so, just too bad and sucks to be me?

my 2 cents.

Submitted September 08, 2021 at 03:44PM by siyans https://ift.tt/3hhHZeW