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Originally Posted by James
I think focusing on making students pass tests, when they should be focusing on making them better humans - that's the big problem with education.
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Both should be a focus, but yes, the latter is coming too much in the background. The school should focus less on tests and exams. Instead of giving the students a boatload of tests, hoping that they pass, teachers' primary task should be to make sure that the students actually understand what they're learning. After all the schools' real aim is, or should be, preparing the students for later life. To achieve this, there must be more teachers per student than it is now, and the students should be divided into smaller classes.
Of course, I've never gone to school any other place than here in Norway, but from what I gather, these things aren't all that different elsewhere.