1912 eighth grade exam: Could you make it to high school in 1912?

[Slyfox696]

Got through it, it wasn't easy, but did 'OK', not great. The point here is that our education system is failing our youth. I would pose the same question and challenge any current high school senior in any high school in the country to take an SAT from 1965, without using a calculator or have any outside influence at all (cell phone to look up the answers). The results would be troubling.

Why would they do it without a calculator or cell phone? That's silly. What would be the point?

Too many people in this country don't understand the direction education NEEDS to take. We need to stop thinking of education as a pouring of knowledge into heads. Education needs to be about teaching how to access information, how to form conclusions from information. It needs to evolve beyond rote memory into higher levels of thinking. With the incredibly access to knowledge we have these days, it is simply time we change the way we teach. I've already been doing it for years.

The education system isn't failing anyone. And if people would quit fighting it and instead begin supporting it, it could do even better. Instead people want to undermine it so they can destroy it. Because once you remove the promise of an education for everyone, those who are educated and wealthy have much less to fear from those who are not.