According to Ken Robinson, the core of our education system is made on the basis of industrial, mass production assembly line. He described how kids are like producst in factory that we went through stages of acquiring knowledge in school, using standardize test to eliminate the defects and comparing kids according to their age. He argued that with standardize test, it strongly misinterpreted and differntiate the genius among people. People achieve great things with divergent thinking, which is the ability to form multiples idea and act upon at the same time. He suggested that our education system kills people's divergent thinking that people are forced to conform to the standard and disregard any room for creativity. I agree with Ken Robinson that with the increasing number of standardizing test to determine one’s intelligence at the early age is truly unfair. People shouldn’t just be judge on how successful they will be in the future based on test result. However, I do not see any other efficient alternative to differentiate people, for instance, to go into colleges, without standardize test. It is true that in American colleges, besides standardize test and GPA, collage admission staffs also look at applicants extracurricular activities or essay to accept people into their school. However, standardize test will always be the first line to washout people they don’t think will be suitable in their school. If school were to go over each and every applicant’s extracurricular activities, there will be too much biased within the selection process and eventually caused chaos. Our education system is indeed flawed. However, it is impossible to get rid of standardize test that only through these tests can the selection process be fair and unbiased.
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