another blog sabotaged by Yahoo.
To recap...education is part of the new federal budget, but recent studies show that students consider cheating and stealing as OK; thus the question is not why education is failing, but how to instill ethics .
Academic success is measured by multiple choice, which does nothing to evaluate the learning. In my own background, I look back to college and realize that the numerous essay exams I was given served a number of purposes, including having me explain on paper what I had learned. One class in statistical analysis required us to use a sliderule, even though we all had calculators; to this day I find reviewing spreadsheets on a computer sometimes requires me to take pencil and pad to validate the results on the screen. Sometimes I actual find error the computer has not, because it is not looking to analyse, merely present the data.
OK, so by now you are bored...lets see how bored you are 10 years from now when some of these nincompoops are mortgage brokers, who only want to make the deal and earn a commission, and lie about it if they have to. Why, there could mortgages given to people that really are unqualified and that could cause a serious risk to mortgages being defaulted on...OOPs, too late, we already did that...
No comments:
Post a Comment