Wednesday, September 20, 2006

the timed exam

the least pleasant part of any educational process, involving extensive and tedious rote preparation, anticipation of an environment and a framework quite unlike anything realistic, acquisition of specific skills of focus, analysis, pace, coherence, among others, held together by a certain mental and emotional disposition. not unlike the actual competition event in a sport - its nearest equivalent.

funny how the artificiality of it all, its ceterus paribus-like quality is desired as a means of most accurately assessing ability. no other condition is more clinical and devoid, more reductive of man as comparative performance engine.

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