education #6

       Young adults in America will do anything to get good grades, including cheating and plagiarism. We take tests such as the SAT or ACT to "test our knowledge" when really it just tests how well you can memorize what you are told and your test taking abilities. People are not good test takers and get nervous and anxious, and if you can't get a good grade on these standardized tests, sorry but you're not going to the college of your choice. The actual value of learning is taken away. No one cares how well they know the information as long as they get a good enough grade on the test and then they just forget the information anyway. And why does this happen? Because we have to make it look like we're intelligent and smart to help us get some kind of money to go to the college of our choice. And even if you get into that college, there's no guarantee you'll be going there because you may not have the money.
       Other countries offer college to students for FREE. No costs. Just learning. I would love to just learn information for the sake of knowing that information. Not worry about how test questions will be worded or memorizing random, useless facts because "there's going to be a question on the test like it!". And obviously in these other countries you still have to be accepted into the college, but it'll be easier because you would have a better under standing of the things you've learned for the past 18 years of your life and not just forgetting about it the day after that chapter's test is over. All I'm saying is these education system is messed up, and all it does is add unnecessary anxiety and stress to today's youth.