The Education Quiz Show

 True education is giving knowledge until it is learned no matter how long it takes an individual to learn it. We learn every day in non-academic situations. When we, as infants learn to walk, to feed ourselves, to manipulate toys, we aren't tested with a mark. We are inspired to learn because it makes us feel better, it makes us grow in knowledge. We are naturally motivated. Then a child goes to school, up comes an academic quiz show where children are told to memorize or create or manipulate the way an adult tells them to. If they do it well, they are rewarded. They go on the honor roll or receive a diploma or a star. The others are cast off as failures. This makes education a quiz show with a quiz master teacher.  It is not a learning place. The whole quiz show mess should be tossed out because it fails. It is not true education. True education is presenting knowledge to inspire and is without penalty. It is about on-going learning until each and every student reaches their learning goal no matter how long it takes to go over and over the knowledge.  Some will go on and on and others will take their time but both will feel successful especially without any kind of reward  or failure system such as the present quiz show format. Out go marks. In come  teachers as knowledge givers including AI the biggest teacher of all to date. Think how student education stress will disappear. Knowledge is free and should be imparted as such. A teacher who one assumes is a master learner should be happy to impart knowledge continuously to each and every one of their students until they have learned the true value of what the teacher offers freely with no marks to deter. Testing is oral and an exchange of knowledge between the student and the teacher is the assessment of its success. Writing skills are cooperative with the teacher giving, not criticising but encouraging the skills needed to improve continuously. A student needs inspiration and examples of success to follow. The beauty of the arts comes first, not the testing to see who will win and who will lose.  No giving of marks for achievement but merely simple praise and further step  to gain on one's personal knowledge seeking ladder. To test the depth of knowledge, the teacher and fellow students and other teachers will meet and learn from the student what has been gathered. Education becomes a mutual goal to benefit all.  It sounds rebellious, but the gains could be unfathomably superior to what we do today.  There is only one side of a desk in true education.