Looking particularly at the prestigious universities, such as Harvard and other Ivy League colleges, he does point out that employers will be more impressed that you were at a prestigious university than what your grades were like. I would have to agree because it is similar with other employers today. What matters is that you have your bachelor's degree in whatever major you desire, and that you survived the four years of classes and being able to pass the exams. In Goodman’s argument the testing is only based on the full extent of capabilities, but it seems it is getting rid of the weakness. Because the testing is actually filtering those who are weak, it does not seem like there is a need for it because of the way we have to keep are grades
In sports, investigators utilize individual records or diversion measurements to analyze competitors. In this manner, groups utilize those estimations make discovering players a great deal less demanding. In like manner, grades measure an understudy's capacities, qualities, and shortcomings in the classroom. In Paul Goodman's passage entitled "A Proposal to Abolish Grading," he contends that Ivy alliance Universities ought to annul grades. His reasons are that understudies organize tests instead of discover significance to new learning. In the event that evaluations are canceled understudies will have the capacity to take in the material without the anxiety. Despite the fact that Goodman unequivocally concentrates on renowned schools, is an issue that worries each school. For it makes one wonder if grades are truly essential to quantify an understudy's capacity to learn. Goodman trusts that the present understudies will just do what is insignificantly required for them to pass their class. From my own understanding, understudies that are staggeringly decided and discover reason in acquiring new information are the ones with the most noteworthy imprints. I trust that understudies that apparent in classes they don't discover agreeable have a superior possibility of getting acknowledged into great schools and employments. It is as though the individual is stating " I will pick up anything and exceed expectations at it." what's more, educators can utilize evaluations to select
In document 1, George Kennan arguments are that the USRR sees capitalism as an enemy, therefore, it cannot coexist with the rest of the world. He states that the Soviets want to dominate the world. as a result, he proposed a policy of containment where the United States and its allies should find ways to reduce the spread of communism around the world.
“The test-takers were college graduates from every state and from countries around the world. Fully two-thirds of the essays I scored would not have passed my freshman composition class, yet I was expected to give a score of 4 (Passing) to such writing and, apparently, the graduate schools of business accepted such students” (Reeves pg.4). Throughout the article, Reeve uses his background in his career to support his opinion. Since he has knowledge through “grading of tests” readers can easily be persuaded to agree with his opinion.
Nicholas Carr Claimed that the internet affects our information processing. Carr backed up his argument by speaking with a wide array of educated and reputable people like friends, colleagues, a blogger, GMU and a professor making his argument validity greater. Carr admits that he and his friends also; have the same problem by saying that he was appealing to emotions by using Ethos.
“Abortion is impermissible, because it deprives a being of a future like ours. Accordingly, it is morally similar to killing a healthy adult.”
For me, one of the things that really resonated was Allen’s point about people’s positions and how they come to hold these certain positions. Allen made the claim that many people hold a certain position simply because they heard it from someone else or read it, not because it was based off of scripture. I have personally seen this happen when it comes to the topic of Calvinism. I have experienced both sides of the argument of people holding positions yet they cannot tell me exactly how the bible explains their position on an argument. Like Allen said, the Calvinist debate is not something that will just go away. We as southern Baptists need to have a correct biblical understanding when it comes to the Calvinist debate. If we disagree with
According to Webster Dictionary, Philosophy is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline. How is that someone can even study reality or existence, doesn’t that just make it opinion or perception. Understanding a point being made by a philosopher is taking a trip through their brain, which sometimes can be scary and other times be fascinating. Making sense of their nonsense sense is tricky; identifying their argument, even trickier. Avital Ronell said it best in Examined Life, “Philosophy is like a parallel universe or a rival team that also comes up with all of this prescribed bullshit; it’s very will to power.” (Taylor)
I accept Town’s argument that “the bible relates how God intercepted the lives of people to save them from disaster and to show them a better way to live” (Core Christianity). In the bible God clearly reveals his commandments, and what could be one’s punishment for committing sin. On the other hand, God tells His children how he will bless them, and their families, if they obey God’s commandments and live accordingly to His laws. In a sense, God tells His children how wonderful their lives can be if they praise Him, and do the things they need to do to strengthen their relationship with Him. Also, God explains how individuals can repent for their sins, by being sincere in their heart when praying for forgiveness. He also states that when
Yes, I do believe that his argument is accurate. I think that we do target specific drugs to identify is illegal based on who typically uses the drugs in the US. The first time I heard this I didn't want to believe it, so I did research for myself. Its true what he said middle class white women were used opiates to relieve pain, but no one wanted to but them in jail. When I came to the Japanese using it the were in fear of them having "power" over the majority. I mean now they put all races in jail for using any drugs, but I feel like they are definitely fast acting when it's a darker skinned person as Nadelmann said in the video.
“The sale of a whole range of screening, intelligence, readiness, and other tests generates in excess of $100 million in revenues in the U.S. (Meaghan and Casas 44)”. Companies that administer these tests like the ACT are making hundreds of millions of dollars to make these tests. These are large corporations that are making money from distributing the test and then once again making more money from grading it. Governments look into ways to save money with education so why don’t they focus on abolishing standardized tests and just focus on a student’s grade point average. A student’s high school transcript gives a college enough information for them to make their selection, doing this may take them longer to choose their potential students. However, the students that they do administer would be better represented because they would have that student’s record of the past four years. Showing how they did in certain classes and even what they struggled in.
Einstein once said, “If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” Likewise, if a poor test-taker is judged by their SAT score, they could be forced to attend an inadequate institute of higher education. For decades, the SAT has been “the test” that makes or breaks a student's chances of getting into their top college. Generally, the privileged populace do well, but minorities and women do not come out as strong and are therefore limited to college choice. The SAT has proven to be an unsuitable, biased method for predicting success of students in college.
Menand then discusses statistics about Harvard college applicants and acceptance rates which enhances his logic because it makes him more reliable and credible to the audience. This furthers his claim because he explains how these students force themselves to fit in a category in order to get into school. As he begins to talk about the meritocratic educational system, he exposes its flaws, and how it brings out competitiveness within the students. He explains how students are afraid to be wrong and have anxiety and stress because of this system which connects to the audience because they have someone who understands what they are experiencing. “Your mother can’t come over [...] You’re on your own.” This plays on the audience's emotions because
Both letter to the editor and editorial staff offer position that are supported by both facts and opinions. The letter explores to urges the new reusable bag ordinance while the editorial staff argues that they are serious about making Proposition 328 mandatory in every store. While both side make an acceptable case, it is clear that the letter provides a better argument.
Gerald Graff is a professor of English and education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Graff, in his essay, emphasizes the importance for instructors to teach and increase enjoyable courses that students shall truly understand. Graff assures that all kids have hidden intellectualism trying to emerge from within, and as a teacher he feels partly accountable to help those kids develop their competencies in educational work. The essence of Graff’s argument is for students to know that intellectualism lurks within them all, and they need to implement their potential at school. Furthermore, he enriches the essay based totally on his own life experiences, along with his hidden intellectualism, while he attended school during the anti-intellectualism
Upon doing research on Charles Murray it was discovered that he went to Harvard, which may make one doubt the validity of his argument. Another faulty is that a man who went to such a prestigious school will have a different expectation than someone who went to the University of New Hampshire for example. Of course he doesn’t think college is for everyone because not everyone may be able to make it through a college as vigorous as Harvard. Anyone that attends Harvard has some amount of talent but “anything below an IQ of 110 is problematic…if you want to do well [in college], you should have an IQ of 115 or higher” (Kirszner, Mandell 677). By making this statement, one can doubt his arguments validity; he may be making too high of an expectation for the “qualifying” student academically college abled and underestimating the “unqualified” college student that should try two years of vocational school before attempting a four year college. Millar, who did not attend an Ivy League school like Murray, and did an exceptionally well job of convincing her readers by stating facts with opinions. If a woman who went to UCLA can do that, than Murray may be overestimating college and adding more insult than encouragement. If a parent has a child with an IQ less than that of a “qualifying” one, then Murray may appear discriminatory towards an audience that is associated