Mitchell and Webb: School and university

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[DJAngiePangie]

The problem is in school we don't learn for the sake of enlightenment, or understanding the world around us, we learn to pass exams and get jobs. The only way to counter it is to take your education into your own hands and learn yourself.

[hardinmichael1981]

what if we kill the poor?

[ShatteredxSpiritx]

I love it. I can do nothing except draw pretty pictures in my folder, not revise, do a single homework and I can still walked out with an A*... and I took GCSE technology a year early.

[collegeman1988]

The BBC should never have cancelled Mitchell and Webb. They are the funniest British commedians.

[ronaldinhollew]

In modern teaching, reaching targets is all that matters.

Nowhere is this clearer than in the teaching of languages. In French all you really need to do is say your name, where you live and how old you are and you've got a C at GCSE level. There are millions of people in the UK right now with a GCSE in French that couldn't so much as tell you their mother's first name in the language. What does that C in German tell us about you? It tells us that you were spoon-fed and cheated to a qualification

[ronaldinhollew]

@DJAngiePangie Wow! I was about to write something similar, but you beat me to it 5 months ago!

In this country we've stopped teaching kids so that they may better themselves, we've just been teaching them so as to achieve targets. It's a trend that we see in pretty much every aspect of modern society; who cares about the long-term or the bigger picture, you've met your targets! Your job's safe!

[Neutrinoghost]

@titaniumslug Lol. I've just got a job working in a secondary school as a science technician (I start monday) specialising in physics, so it's going to be really interesting to see exactly what these kids are being taught compared to what it was like when I was there 13 years ago. I'll try and keep you posted.

[titaniumslug]

@Neutrinoghost You know that weird thing with youtube when you get a response from something you said a year ago? This is one of them. I got a double B in science when I did my GCSE's 11 years ago. I could't answer the questions you posted without looking it up, so it looks to me as if exams have got harder if anything. You are a science graduate so of course you are going to find science GCSE questions easy. I bet about 95% of politicians couldn't answer those questions either.

[AndyMcCy]

@Miners666 Well, not short term memory but i know what you mean.

I'm a big history and computer nerd and a lot of it ive learned is from my own desire to read up on it, so much so that my friends turn to me when they have a question on those subject like when they havent got a clue what happened in Vietnam. But my exam skills are just awfull and i feel like im learning how to beat the system instead of showing what knowledge i possess.

It's kinda disappointing.

[cattyley1]

Of course people get better grades nowadays, we have the internet. All the information in the world whenever we want it, maybe 40 years ago you had to read the text book and listen, but you don't even have to turn up to school anymore, plus you can access past papers, mark schemes, course specifications.

[darkridr25]

@DJAngiePangie I completely agree with you on this. The largest downside to this method is that it is never recognized. While I do continue learning new things based upon my interests even today, almost 25 years after I've graduated. Yet the largest salary I've ever held was about $20,000 or so USD, and the only way to compensate is to work 60 hours or more per week.

...I hate my life....