Comments on: One Thousand Miles http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2009/01/21/one-thousand-miles/ thinking about education Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: TigerTom http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2009/01/21/one-thousand-miles/comment-page-1/#comment-1497 TigerTom Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:23:01 +0000 http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2009/01/21/one-thousand-miles/#comment-1497 Wouldn't be simpler just to have a national exam system, set to a very high standard, and then say to teachers, headmasters and parents: "You can do what ever you like, but every X years, there will be an exam. If Y% of students in your school pass it, we'll leave you alone." It'd save a lot of admin, money and hand-wringing. I saw an exam set for 12 year olds in the Edwardian era. I couldn't attempt it as an adult. If your country has the toughest exams in the world, you set the standard. In the UK, standards are slipping. We're getting high-school graduates who write like children. Wouldn’t be simpler just to have a national exam system, set to a very high standard, and then say to teachers, headmasters and parents:

“You can do what ever you like, but every X years, there will be an exam. If Y% of students in your school pass it, we’ll leave you alone.”

It’d save a lot of admin, money and hand-wringing.

I saw an exam set for 12 year olds in the Edwardian era. I couldn’t attempt it as an adult. If your country has the toughest exams in the world, you set the standard.

In the UK, standards are slipping. We’re getting high-school graduates who write like children.

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