When i was a student, i thought,
“Exams can go to grass!”
I never really deeply cared about exams.
They never could measure me
and they never will measure me.
As an adult, i still say,
“Exams can go to grass!”
(Sorry grass, you deserve
dandelions and insects,
not cadaverous exams.)
Damselfly with the Insect Prey that it caught … Photo by Thomas Peace c.2019
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But you are quite skilled at examining dandelions and insects! It’s just a different sort of examination! Close attention’s not quite the same as a test, I’d say!
I was just reading about entering photos in contests, similar to exams. Can be important, but not the be-all and end-all.
I dislike the fact that a local photography club has a lot of competitive photo-contests.
Yes, Linda, they are quite different. I discovered the best things, the deepest things, without any superficial tests involved. 🙂
Lovely blue on the insect. 🙂
Yes, I hated exams too, as it was never a true measure of your capabilities and caused a lot of stress!
Yes, Scifi, stress and a superficial kind of motivation are involved. Profound learning is beyond all that. Some excellent alternative schools do not give exams. 🙂
Short exam story. I was too distracted to get good grades in high school. As a junior I beat out everyone in my school on the rigorous Latin exam. The school administrators confronted me: did I cheat? Nihil timeo was my smart ass response.
Ha! Good one! That shut them up! 🙂
Yes exams should be full of other things especially a variety of the natural world!
Yes, like i mentioned to Scifi, some excellent alternative schools do not give exams (and they take students outdoors to work with nature, organic garden, and build solar panels and such). 🙂
If only there were more of this instead of always the Rat Race mentality.
Yes, mostly they want to pile 35 in a class and give them books and tests. Little wonder why they end up jaded and messed up permanently.
Well put. Nice damselfly too!
Thank you, Belinda! She’s a meat-eater, like so many. 🙂
I wish I’d said the same. I was always good at tests, and look where it’s for me!
Yes, Eilene, the profound and truly meaningful things in my life are what was discovered (without tests). 🙂
Exam is a four letter word. Lovely photo, as always 😊
Ha! 🙂 Yes, Dorinda, a four letter word! They throw 35 in a room with books and exams and then don’t call it miseducation.
I’m right there with you, Tom. never liked them, never will. That time could be spent on further education. tsk tsk
Tests great anxiety . Just thinking about them makes me uneasy …love the cute blue dragon fly
I’m retired and no more tests, no more bosses for me, Luda. 🙂 They toss 35 kids in a room these days and treat them like it’s the military.
Beautiful capture, Tom! 😊
Thanks Donna! 🙂 We are both after winged creatures! 🙂
Singing my song Tom. Had an argument with a vice-chancellor over this, a raging discussion over the fact that exams, literally, are not worth the paper they’re written on, and as you say can’t measure.
There are alternative schools where exams are frowned upon and where real learning takes place. They consist of small classrooms — of around 8 to 10 kids (not 35 crammed in like prisoners) — and take students outdoors to discover, learn from nature, organic garden, and make solar panels. Real education is living (not dead). There are, unfortunately, a lot of cadavers out there… cranking out clones of themselves.
Yes, that’s the sad part, the walking dead controlled by drones, we too have some places that do real learning environs.
Beautiful blue dragonfly!
Woww amazing macro Tom, so beautiful, lovely blue colors! 🙂
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