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Okay - I'm sorry your nerd muscles were so weak you couldn't even hold a pencil.
But regardless of your personal shortcomings, these classes exist because they teach useful things, and if we want to tell others who did and did not learn those useful things in this class, we need a way to test that knowledge.
Now, it seems like your point of view is that all the knowledge and experience of a university education is useless anyway. This is a point of view I have some sympathy towards, but on the whole I don't think it is right. However, if you do, then why the fuck arent you filthy rich yet? If you know so well what people need to know to be successful and well educated for the next 30 years, and you think you know how they should learn, and you know how you can evaluate their abilities after receiving an education - then why aren't you doing that and raking in the billions of dollars that go into university education right now?
So go do that. Tell me when you make your first million. But until then, I'm gonna assume that the foundational western liberal education has value, seeing as it has persisted for quite a while. LLMs on the other hand, may very well turn out to be a fad of the summer.
I think standardized testing is not a good way to measure if someone has achieved the learning objective of a lesson. I'm hardly the only one to think this way. It's great for testing how good someone is at rote memorization of facts for a single test for topics that are never brought up again so immediately forgotten. If you do it in person with pens and paper the kiddos can just read their neighbors shit, or sneak in a cheat sheet. Did this not happen in every single class you've ever taken from K-12 and then 4 years in a uni? Did for me!!!!! I promise. I never needed to cheat, but there was always someone within eyeshot doing it. I'm not a snitch.
Lack of motivation, lack of a million dollar loan from mommy and daddy. You can't teach motivation really. My upbringing was free room and board until I was 18.
Already there man... 300k in 401ks, 350k in non-retirement fund investments, 500k townhouse with 50k mortgage left on it as a rental. 600k condo too.