[OT] <<what the hell are you talking about?>>
Wow! This reminds me of my years in college. Having never gone to an English-speaking school before, I regularly interrupted lectures every few minutes and yelled out "What the hell are you talking about?"
Now that I'm through with schooling, I conclude that the American education is a great system. However, it can be made greater if teachers don't have to teach, students don't have to learn AND everyone gets perfect scores on the SAT. In addition, if my scheme described below is adopted, exams will reflect more completely the varied ingredients in the American melting pot: the rich and the poor, the sad and the gay, the male pigs and female swine, the stupid and the wacko, the unibomber and the software monopolist, the short and long, the marginers and the optioneers.
Here's my sample design change to the SAT (already submitted to Congress):
Reading comprehension section (1 day to complete)
Q: To be or not to be
A:
a. 1
b. true
c. english
d. what the hell are you talking about?
As you see, our students can't go wrong with any answer and will get a perfect score if they can just darken INSIDE the ovals on the exam sheets. Answer (a) reflects the thought of those who have mastered the art of computer programming where all are evaluated to 1 or 0. Answer (b) is for the philosophers where all statements are ultimately true or false. (c) for the literary or illiterate immigrants and (d) for the most thoughtful of all: those who question the questioners and also for the bewildered who stagger at every post that is not a real-time or delayed quote, upgrade or down, earnings estimate reiteration, ... |
