Colour me curious, but I've been wondering something lately, as I realised what I would do in this situation.
You're dictator. You can do anything you want without fearing repercussions, fear at all. What would be your main accomblishment? What would be your defining acheivement, and how would you go about it? If this differs from your first action, spell that one out, too.
The Shade wants to know.
...a Wandering Star for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever...
I like clpos plan for punishment, but I like most of canada and alaska so I say we use a remote part of the canadian yukon, turning it in to a special "idiot preserve" where they can all die out in peace
"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done"."
We would drop them a letter grade every offense until you become an F. Then we stick you in an isolated area (Wyoming, Alaska, Canada) where you can't interact with anyone with higher grades.
Okay, that's a little harsh. Just building on amp's idea.
Everyone has to carry around a card with their HS GPAs on it. Fs are not allowed to breed, Ds must breed with As (if the As want to) Cs can breed with As or Bs and Bs can breed with C's or As. A;s can breed with any one except Fs
a little forced intelligence increase for America
"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done"."
This thread is to good to let it die... Shade, we never ended up hearing what you'd do? (unless I missed it...)
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I think the problem are standarized test in general, mostly because we are not standarized people
I like that. I think there are other ways to have certain standards for the whole country to have to meet without the necessity of tests, or ONLY tests.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E.B.White
I think the problem are standarized test in general, mostly because we are not standarized people. People have different mindsets, and I'm not only referring to morality or ideological variations. Education should evaluate individuals based on their implication, interest, and effort. A continuous evaluation based on writing, critical analisis, and synthesis of learned information has been found to be more productive, more apreciated by students, and a better gauge of learning capacity.
You know who does good on standardized test? The average person who knows only how to memorize but not how to apply any of their knowlage.
Hmm I see. It seems that the problem is that the tests in question are not very good. I was assuming that the standardised tests you take are like the ones I took (I participated in 2 different education systems). My mistake.
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I'm starting a thread on this subject to stop hijacking this one.
Really? Ive been waiting to say how great communism is! Taiwan vs China? N vs S korea? E vs W germany? Russia vs America? Communism is sweet! (Shutup! don't you dare point out the reality! Marx was right about everything).
The average person who knows only how to memorize but not how to apply any of their knowlage.
I couldn't have said it better
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Let's keep this thread on topic and free of personal attacks please.
I've never felt insulted by someone calling me a commie, rather I've allways taken it as praise. I'm starting a thread on this subject to stop hijacking this one.
And I've seen brilliant people who failed standardized test because that's not they way they think. You know who does good on standardized test? The average person who knows only how to memorize but not how to apply any of their knowlage.
No, but they're the best filter we've got. Over here, where the tests are non-standardised, schools make up their own tests, teachers mark them and often mark students based on how much they like them. Because the tests are non-standardised, a big crazy incompehensible system is employed by the state authority to try and get the schools gradings turned into some kind of incredibly rough measure of each students academic ability, through a piss-poor process of comparing random school exams.
Ive seen lazy inept people get better end-of-school scores than clever people. Ive seen people of comparable academic capabilities get very different scores because they went to different schools. Ive never met anyone who went through this school system disagree with anything I just said. NO-ONE.
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Doing well on a standardized test shows nothing but the fact you have the ability to take a test. Standardized tests are a waste of time and cannot possibly show all a person is capable of.
Your alternative...
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Cool, I can't wait to live in a society where know-nothing dumb-asses can become surgeons, and the best minds are scrubbing toilets!
No. That is not how it would work. Why must you constantly think in black and white? Doing well on a standardized test shows nothing but the fact you have the ability to take a test. Standardized tests are a waste of time and cannot possibly show all a person is capable of.
RaceDriver, some people just don't test well, it doesn't mean they are "dumb-asses." Actually if you have to write papers and have these alternative evaluations instead of just tests, you get a much more complete picture of the person, because it's work over a period of time, not just one day(it also takes longer and is harder to evaluate, so you could say tests are more efficient(sp?) in some ways but do not really represent that persons knowledge as well). I do think for some things obviously you need tests, and it's also a way I guess to keep the whole country or state or school or whatever up to certain standards, but it's not as clear cut as you're putting it. Stop being so fucking close minded and try to think about it before you answer okay?
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E.B.White
it should be in hands of the workers who democratically decide how to manage it
Read up on communism - if you believe that you'll like communism. Anyway, on what grounds do you think a society can be run if the goverment consists of 80% of the population?
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Yes. I would do away with standardized tests.
Cool, I can't wait to live in a society where know-nothing dumb-asses can become surgeons, and the best minds are scrubbing toilets! You know what else we should do commie, we should do away with driving licences. We should also do away with jails. We should also do away with roads. You know, no common sense and maximum social damage - the best policy in the world.
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