'TESTOCRACY' VS. 'MERITOCRACY'

"about how we reevaluate the meaning of merit by measuring its democratic values rather than its testocratic machinery"

Amartya Sen’s definition of merit as an incentive system that rewards actions society values – in our society

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Key Points

What’s wrong with meritocracy? 

• It endorses a competitive, linear, hierarchical system in which by definition certain people must be left behind
• Unrealized talent is therefore both the necessary and structural condition of its existence. 
• Requiring people to be in a permanent state of competition with each other
• Climbing the ladder is simply much harder for some people than others
• Availability of material and psychological resources depends on social location
• ‘flexploitation’(flex-ibility + exploitation) rather than‘flexicurity’(flexibility + security) 
• Hereditary meritocracy

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The children of the rich and powerful are increasingly well suited to earning wealth and power themselves

Are elitist institutions the reason for two Indias? | ThinkEdu2020

• Is merit really achievable?
• How many graduates from first time graduates?
• System perpetuating the educated class
• Does brain power perpetuate across generations
• Social upliftment / Contribution for soceity

Modern education:

Creating people who are smart enough to accurately repeat what they are told and follow the orders.

And dumb enough to think this makes them smarter than everyone else. 🧠

— Richard Feynman (@ProfFeynman) May 12, 2021

What does school really teach children:

• Truth comes from authority.
• Intelligence is the ability to remember and repeat.
• Accurate memory and repetitions are rewarded.
• Non-compliance is punished.
• Conform: Intellectually and socially.

— Richard Feynman (@ProfFeynman) May 10, 2021

Things that Schools should teach: 🧠

• Being wrong is not a bad thing.
• It's Okay to question what you have been taught.
• Grades aren't as valuable as skills.
• Understanding is more important than memorization.
• Making mistakes is Okay. Learn from your mistakes.

— Richard Feynman (@ProfFeynman) May 10, 2021

Education is not learning to do a repetitive process. It is understanding, questioning, asking #why, and taking it to next level.

Education System: pic.twitter.com/8tjpsWe8wv

— Richard Feynman (@ProfFeynman) May 17, 2021

• MCQ Pressure is not a measure of knowledge
• MCQ Time management is not a measure of intelligence
• Experimental knowledge vs Ability to recollect
• Choose the right answer vs Eliminating the wrong answer
• Knowledge comes from reasoning and experimentation

Dropout in the education system is not a failure of students but a failure of the education system. True intelligence is built from learning, experimenting, failing. It is not built overnight or by copy-past and running code. 

Keep Thinking!!!