You're a grown man and still may very well not have experienced the educational delights BP and I were fortunate enough to partake in.......by the 1st grade, no less.
The problem is that the SAT only tests a narrow range of intelligence. It should be expanded to include woodwork, cooking, sewing, auto tech, and most of all, video gaming. Modern teenagers are smarter than before but tests have not kept up. I blame old people. Old people don't like teenagers and refuse to change the SAT. The SAT only takes up a Saturday morning. Why not make it a weeklong affair and test everything. I'd have made Harvard if they'd tested my anklebreaking crossover.
To be honest (and something I'm so not proud of), I have all of a 10th grade education. Sucked to be me.
I don't think that's nearly as bad as some people do. Education is a subjective term (at least, imho it is). Some of the "smartest" people I know are some of the least "educated" people I know. and vice versa. Some of the stupidest people I know are far more educated than you or I am.
I wish I was smart enough to have invented facebook. or marry a really smart hot woman who likes frumpy old guys who are balding.
I agree. Let's add questions on Call of Duty 4 and living at home until they're 30. Who needs math and English to assess future academic achievement? We're only 5 years away from living our entire lives as avatars in a Matrix-like game, and the ability to learn quickly and have excellent hand-eye coordination will be more important than some algebra and verb tenses.
I wish I was smart enough to steal the idea of Facebook from some rich Repubulican twins at Harvard, and then betray my initial source of funding when I moved to the Silicon Valley. Those damn scruples, I tell ya! I shoulda been a sociopath...
I have to admit that the Vinklewoss twins look like the definition of pretentious douchebags. Zuckerberg still looks like a pipsqueak who squats to pee, though.
I think both the usefullness of SAT's AND the supposed US's falling "rank" in math and science compared to other nations are debatable.
I didn't even take the SAT's, and now only 3 years later Texas Tech is chopping at the bits to get me in their school. [video=youtube;JZNSaCJiixw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZNSaCJiixw[/video]
