Opposite of Education

by bruno

This attitude towards testing plays into everything that – educationally speaking – makes Americans feel embarrassed about themselves. On first hearing Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn, the usual response of a young American is not to swoon, weep or ponder whether beauty is really truth, and truth beauty. It is to ask: “Will that be on the test?”

How many of my fellow Portuguese readers throughout their 5 years of college asked this same question: Will that be on the test?