Remember Me by Lynda Renham About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism we must try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.” “Some recent thinkers,” he said, “ that an individual’s intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be increased. He never intended it to identify degrees of intelligence or “mental worth.” In fact, Binet noted that the scale he created “does not permit the measure of intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.” Nor did he ever intend it to suggest that a person could not become more intelligent over time. In fact, he originally designed it (on commission from the French government) exclusively to identify children with special needs so they could get appropriate forms of schooling. “Ironically, Alfred Binet, one of the creators of the IQ test, intended the test to serve precisely the opposite function.
― Ken Robinson, quote from The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything I realize this isn’t an exact analogy and that it ignores many of the subtleties of the system, but it is close enough.” They are given standardized tests at set points and compared with each other before being sent out onto the market. Students are educated in batches, according to age, as if the most important thing they have in common is their date of manufacture. They arrange the day into standard units of time, marked out by the ringing of bells, much like a factory announcing the beginning of the workday and the end of breaks. Schools divide the curriculum into specialist segments: some teachers install math in the students, and others install history.
This is especially true in high schools, where school systems base education on the principles of the assembly line and the efficient division of labor. In many ways, they reflect the factory culture they were designed to support. “Public schools were not only created in the interests of industrialism-they were created in the image of industrialism.
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