Questioning Customs
In the book “ The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined ” by Sal Khan, my college classmates and I were assigned a couple of chapters from the book to understand the start of education for students from K-12 and how there should be changes to the system. There’s not going to be a change overnight due to politics being a big part of the education system. Also, within the educational system, I read from one of the chapters that testing students is not beneficial for their educational needs. It's more about memorizing than comprehending what they are learning at school. While reading the chapter test and testing in the book, this quote reminded me of a movie that I happened to scroll past one day. The quote is “ Economics and politics factors in, as does a strange Alice-In-Wonderland kind of cockeyed logic; tests change, in part, so that the results will come closer to what the testers think they should be.” (Khan, 94) Right after reading this quote, I thought of t...