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standardized testing

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Standardized tests teach students how to work quickly, how to work under pressure, and how to follow orders from employers without questioning. Once these robotic recruits are well rehearsed, they are the perfect machines for making business owners wealthy. Since standardized tests are required in our society today, the best way to deal with this is to study hard and try to obtain the best test scores possible while trying to maintain a sense of self outside of these uniform exams...
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Ollman states, “Rather they [students] should become better students by learning more about the role of education and exams in particular, in capitalism.” In other words, although it is widely argued that these tests are failures as learning tools, they are largely successful in what they are sought out to do (remove individuality and creativity in order to teach students how to help others get rich)...
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