lavanderblues

Tuesday, November 02, 2004

education

whilst looking at overused quotes to pepper my gp essays with, i came across this one: "Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes."
This immediately reminded me of how we just need to regurgitate key words, phrases, crap like that for all our structured/essay answers. However much THEY claim that it isn't true, it is.
Even good gp students tend not to do so well for compre; my tutor said so... instead of demanding proper comprehension from candidates, which would involve taking in the passage stuff, assimilating it, then saying it in a comprehended way, we just have to pick out the points from the passage, somehow rephrase it, then plonk it right down in the line spaces. Not that i'm complaining, it actually helps me do better since i'm not one of those 'pro gp students'
Even for long ago-trussed into the back of my mind social studies, we could never write anything that criticised the govt policies beyond what the textbook said, cos we wldnt do well.
so maybe in this sense, if this is true: "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated", heck all the As i've ever gotten. I'm still an uneducated country bumpkin. wow.

lin~*
11:14 pm