John Green - making education awesome since 1977.
Some wonders arrive unannounced to make an end of the day a heart-stirring delight; and we swiftly forget the wasted days of May and early June’s cold winds, which so cruelly replaced the customary warmth of early summer.
This evening, as I hugged good-night to Sophie after dinner together,…
thistmblrisbetterthanyourlife:
Ed Balls giving Michael Gove a GCSE Pop Quiz
Everyone needs to see the look on Michael Gove’s face.
FUCK YOU GOVE
:’)
I enjoyed this, but I’m entirely - 100% - for GCSEs getting harder. The jump from GCSE to A Level is just ridiculous, as it stands, and I don’t think the former properly prepares a student for the latter at all.
I think that this is a brilliant demonstration of what students nowadays are capable of. Balls makes a brilliant point - students are getting better grades, not because the questions are getting easier, because they are learning the material more thoroughly. The problem, however, lies in the fact that students don’t hold this information past the exam (which is demonstrated by the fact that Mr Gove, a seemingly well-educated man, didn’t know the answers to the questions). Students should be taught the matieral itself rather than being taught how to memorise the material for exam purposes only.
"How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive? When you collect marine animals there are certain flatworms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and then lift them into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the only way to write this book - to open the page and to let the stories crawl in by themselves."
— John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
