sleepbby:

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: students should have unlimited possibilities to retake their failed exams. you didn’t do well on ur math exam? retake it as often as u need until you understand the material. ur essay wasn’t coherent enough? no worries, just hand in ur improved version. passing an exam after 5 failed attempts shows just as much if not more eagerness to learn and understanding of the subject and that SHOULD BE what education is about. learning stuff.

but instead school and university use a limited series of pass or fails that say very little about someone’s intelligence and discourage deeper understanding of a field of study, preferring an oversimplified systematic assessment of individuals with very different learning curves. education ain’t about actually learning stuff and that’s very, very problematic