Good evening,This is the first post. I hope A posts here soon too. Junior year is so stressful despite it being the first weekend back. But there is pressure everywhere. The worst part is that the pressure is pointless. Why should one have to commit to work now so that they can go to a good college because the college will see nice SAT scores and a big GPA number?
Does this mean our society finds EVERYONE intelligent and intellectually qualified, so that numbers are the only way to figure out who belongs within Harvard's red brick walls and who belongs walking on linoleum floors at Bunker Hill Community College?
Man invented numbers, and here were are with man building upon his inventions of numbers, creating ranks, scores, GPAs. These aren't scores of performance in the real world (the workforces we should be preparing to join), they are scores of performance ON tests created by a workforce of testmakers. College Board Inc. prospers from nothing less than the production of review books, tests, pencils and figures on a page. They created these numbers! The students did not!
Taking the SATs and particularly preparing for them, requires the erudition of Words, Formulas, and specific ways of Critically reading. College Board teaches tomorrow's citizens to learn, copy and accept. And yet, ironically the executives of College Board Inc. make take their ten year old daughters and sons to movies that make Robots seem despicable as they mechanically serve human desire (and sometimes rebel-making them worthless).
In essence humans are becoming more and more robotic, while ironically society deems robots inferior because they are created simply to follow the directions and desires of humans.
Here I conclude with three points:
1. Human are trapped in their own world
2. While today's educational institutions insist they seek freedom of learning and thought so that their students should be leading in tomorrow's human society, they are selecting students based on who can conform their thinking to whatever another human writing the SATs was thinking.
Little philosophic ranter signs off,
H
