You see this in school now. Instead of tests and studying everything is a fucking project, everyone has to do some gay presentation. Learning is irrelevant, it's just an opportunity to do arts and crafts and spread away all the responsibility.
They always excuse it with "you'll need to know how to work in groups and manage tasks efficiently for your job." When my adult life has literally been me finding jobs that let me work alone because I cannot stand the inefficiency that most people bring to every fucking task in their life.
My entire education was a long lesson in learning to hate people for how slow and stupid they were, and how many wasteful frills teachers add to tasks to keep me from doing more. From "showing work" to "draw a picture and color in the lines." All of it wasting time.
They do it so that when the kid gets the wrong answer, a reviewer can pin-point why they got it wrong and tell them how to correct it. "You flipped the sign on line 5" is significantly more useful than "you fucked up somewhere, IDK."
It's only a waste of time when you get the correct answer. Which is why I too considered it a waste for many years but first time you have to teach someone else, you get the point quickly. Though... I do doubt most teachers bother checking the work anyway.
It's only a waste of time when you get the correct answer.
Which is the point I was at. If I consistently got it wrong, then I would obviously need to step back and do things in more long form.
But if I'm clearly able to consistently get it right and just toss the answer out in 2 seconds, then the "work" is obviously unnecessary as I am showing mastery of the equation and concept. Which makes the "removing 50% of your grade for not putting an illegible left hand scrubbed mess on the paper" lack any principle behind it.
Which feeds into the bigger point of "intentionally gimping gifted kids into a schema meant for the drooling retards in their class" that plagues all education.
A sane world would give partial marks for correct working-out, in the event that the answer was wrong, not make full marks dependant on showing all working-out.
Which feeds into the bigger point of "intentionally gimping gifted kids into a schema meant for the drooling retards in their class" that plagues all education.
It really is abominable. Kills their passion, makes them lazy, robs them of ability to pay attention...
You see this in school now. Instead of tests and studying everything is a fucking project, everyone has to do some gay presentation. Learning is irrelevant, it's just an opportunity to do arts and crafts and spread away all the responsibility.
They always excuse it with "you'll need to know how to work in groups and manage tasks efficiently for your job." When my adult life has literally been me finding jobs that let me work alone because I cannot stand the inefficiency that most people bring to every fucking task in their life.
My entire education was a long lesson in learning to hate people for how slow and stupid they were, and how many wasteful frills teachers add to tasks to keep me from doing more. From "showing work" to "draw a picture and color in the lines." All of it wasting time.
They do it so that when the kid gets the wrong answer, a reviewer can pin-point why they got it wrong and tell them how to correct it. "You flipped the sign on line 5" is significantly more useful than "you fucked up somewhere, IDK."
It's only a waste of time when you get the correct answer. Which is why I too considered it a waste for many years but first time you have to teach someone else, you get the point quickly. Though... I do doubt most teachers bother checking the work anyway.
Which is the point I was at. If I consistently got it wrong, then I would obviously need to step back and do things in more long form.
But if I'm clearly able to consistently get it right and just toss the answer out in 2 seconds, then the "work" is obviously unnecessary as I am showing mastery of the equation and concept. Which makes the "removing 50% of your grade for not putting an illegible left hand scrubbed mess on the paper" lack any principle behind it.
Which feeds into the bigger point of "intentionally gimping gifted kids into a schema meant for the drooling retards in their class" that plagues all education.
A sane world would give partial marks for correct working-out, in the event that the answer was wrong, not make full marks dependant on showing all working-out.
It really is abominable. Kills their passion, makes them lazy, robs them of ability to pay attention...