首页
登录
职称英语
We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the method
We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the method
游客
2025-01-14
30
管理
问题
We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person’s knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years, educationists have still failed to device anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the pious claim that examinations test what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person’s true ability and attitude.
As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success or failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn’t matter that you weren’t feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don’t count: the exam goes on. No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, be enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of "drop- outs": young people who are written off as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students?
A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge, but induce cramming. They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive the teacher of all freedoms. Teachers themselves are often judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques which they despise. The most successful candidates are not always the best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under duress.
The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time. They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judge’s decision yon have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner’s. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person’s true abilities. Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this illiterate message recently scrawled on a wall: "I were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire. " [br] The main idea of this passage is ______.
选项
A、examinations exert a pernicious influence on education
B、examinations are ineffective
C、examinations are profitable for institutions
D、examinations are a burden on students
答案
A
解析
转载请注明原文地址:http://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3913045.html
相关试题推荐
Fromthehealthpointofviewwearelivinginamarvelousage.Weareimmuni
Fromthehealthpointofviewwearelivinginamarvelousage.Weareimmuni
Fromthehealthpointofviewwearelivinginamarvelousage.Weareimmuni
Thereareseveraldifferentmethodsthatcanbeusedtocreateaforecast.Th
Wemightmarvelattheprogressmadeineveryfieldofstudy,butthemethods
Wemightmarvelattheprogressmadeineveryfieldofstudy,butthemethods
[originaltext]TheWorldHealthOrganizationsaysextraordinaryprogresshas
[originaltext]TheWorldHealthOrganizationsaysextraordinaryprogresshas
[originaltext]TheWorldHealthOrganizationsaysextraordinaryprogresshas
Wemightmarvelattheprogressmadeineveryfieldofstudy,butthemethod
随机试题
"NewWomenoftheIceAge"Thestatusofwomeninasociet
BlogCultureThetopictodayisaboutthenewly
Angyaldescribedthecaseofamanwithadomineeringfatherwhoshowedext
InternationalPublishingHouse119S
[originaltext]W:Haveyousavedenoughtobuythatnewprinterforyourcomputer
如图5.2.37所示,计算其建筑面积。
回答病人疑问,帮助病人寻求解决健康问题的方法,体现了护士的专业角色是( )A.
患者男性,42岁。入院时呼之不应,双眼瞪视不动,伴擦鼻、咀嚼,醒后可继续原来的动
下列不属于核心负债的是()。A.3个月的定期存款 B.1年的定期存款 C.
甲、乙等额按份共有一栋四层楼房,登记在甲名下,乙办理异议登记后一直未采取法律措施
最新回复
(
0
)