I have, for many years now, personally held a view
of "testing" that is probably heretical to most of you. But here it is
anyway:
I am a "TESTING ANARCHIST". All PRE-admission
testing to schools of higher learning should be eliminated. You pay your money.
You learn the material. THEN you take the tests. Let the chips fall where they
may. DON'T grade on a curve. Find a standard and fucking use it. If that means
flunking three-fourths of the class, well fuck 'em. That's NS. If I want to
write a check to the bursar at Harvard Medical School to take Neuroanatomy III,
they oughta by-god let me take it. And when I've finished all the requirements
for whatever alphabet soup I want to concatenate with my name, they should
confer said letters. PERIOD. Any other system of education is pure elitist
bullshit, promoted by the entrenched to protect the entrenched. The reason I
might enroll in Neuroanatomy III would be to LEARN Neuroanatomy III! Not to make
a statement on my fitness to learn the material. They can derive that from my
PERFORMANCE. DUH!!
--
Walter Watts
<waiting for small shitstorm from education Ph.
D.'s who would have me burned at stake>
PS--And don't give me a bunch of crap about
resource allocation problems. Simple, elementary, unfettered economics solves
all those problems handily.