Why Focusing On Exams Only Stifles Learning And Ruins Our Life
Learning is a lifelong innate human capacity. We are able to survive because we are able to learn. Education is organising a certain environment to help achieve certain learning goals . While learning, by definition, is an internal process, education is externally organised. As such, its goals hardly take the needs of the learners into account. Instead, educational goals are politically motivated; it is the ministries of education that set the goals of education in any country. Paradoxically, teacher training programmes invariably highlight the importance of taking learners’ needs into consideration while planning lessons and courses. For numerous reasons, exams have become central to education all over the world. Although standardized exams are not all too bad, they should play a less central role in education, not least because they can easily impede learning and halt creativity. We send our children to schools simply because this is the norm if we want to live by the rul...