Comments on: Teaching to the test http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/05/17/teaching-to-the-test/ Not a real vee Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: highrise http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/05/17/teaching-to-the-test/comment-page-1/#comment-10942 highrise Thu, 18 May 2006 05:23:14 +0000 http://www.doctorvee.co.uk/2006/05/17/teaching-to-the-test/#comment-10942 I could have listened a little closer in that English grammar class, though. I could have listened a little closer in that English grammar class, though.

]]> By: highrise http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/05/17/teaching-to-the-test/comment-page-1/#comment-10941 highrise Thu, 18 May 2006 05:21:53 +0000 http://www.doctorvee.co.uk/2006/05/17/teaching-to-the-test/#comment-10941 ...and then you get a job in an industry completely unrelated to your studies and realise that your 10 A-grades mean nothing if you haven't got the skills to resolve conflict in the workplace, juggle a hundred tasks at once or chair a meeting (of which the majority of the subject matter goes over your head)... Education is a great thing and it's always handy to know how to switch on a computer or orders a coffee in German, but I don't think I've so much as *tried* to solve a differential equation since I left school. Yet I've certainly done the things I've mentioned above (not the 10 A-grades, though!) …and then you get a job in an industry completely unrelated to your studies and realise that your 10 A-grades mean nothing if you haven’t got the skills to resolve conflict in the workplace, juggle a hundred tasks at once or chair a meeting (of which the majority of the subject matter goes over your head)…

Education is a great thing and it’s always handy to know how to switch on a computer or orders a coffee in German, but I don’t think I’ve so much as *tried* to solve a differential equation since I left school. Yet I’ve certainly done the things I’ve mentioned above (not the 10 A-grades, though!)

]]> By: Tim Worstall http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/05/17/teaching-to-the-test/comment-page-1/#comment-11110 Tim Worstall Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.doctorvee.co.uk/2006/05/17/teaching-to-the-test/#comment-11110 <!--%kramer-pre%--> on the Socialist Republic of North Britain. The English really need to withdraw from the area if it is to have any hope of recovering. Make My Vote Count on learning the lesson of the rise of the BNP. Both amusing and important.DoctorVee takes issue with the report on teaching to the test in maths. It happens in all subjects he suggests. Shuggy is also on to this. It’s the system, stupid. The Da Vinci Code movie as it actually is. In fact, the entire script.<!--%kramer-post%--> on the Socialist Republic of North Britain. The English really need to withdraw from the area if it is to have any hope of recovering. Make My Vote Count on learning the lesson of the rise of the BNP. Both amusing and important.DoctorVee takes issue with the report on teaching to the test in maths. It happens in all subjects he suggests. Shuggy is also on to this. It’s the system, stupid. The Da Vinci Code movie as it actually is. In fact, the entire script.

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