On this day, as
and
I think a lot about cheating in school, and have very strong
opinions about it, usually falling into the category of ‘I don’t care if people
cheat, because everyone is cheating at something’. I have been thinking also of
things quantum-mechanical in nature, about self-fulfilling prophecy and the
like. One day I read the article below. The next day I woke up with a thought in
my head that read as such:
High-Stakes Testing
is the Inverse of Morality
Most assertions that come from unconsciousness are not
befitting of explanation and theoretical underpinning. Once I woke up with the maxim:
“The active chemical in Listerine can be found between the lips of two people
kissing.” Once else, however: “Bombs don’t scare people; people scare people.”
Needless to say, in light of the way things seem to be working around here
(i.e. American Politics and its utter disregard for truth in favor of a simply
constructed story), I really don’t feel the need to explain why this is true,
just that it is. And so, once again, the third time really is the charm,
according to the basic tenets of advertising, at least:
High-Stakes Testing
is the Inverse of Morality
After all, truth is
only a thing that has been repeated many times.
links:
Stuyvesant Students
Describe the How and the Why of Cheating
Vivian Yee, September 25, 2012
Jeanette Rundquist/The Star-Ledger, November 14, 2012
3 Newark
Jessica Calefati/The Star-Ledger, November 13, 2012
Quantum Pedagogical
Theory
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