In response to the Daily News’ assertion that the recently released Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test scores should cause us to smile (Friday editorial, “FCAT grades a glimpse of where schools stand”), I believe we are missing the entire point of learning if we consider a test score an accurate assessment of education.
Albert Einstein said of education that “The aim must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals.”
FCAT scores cannot and will not ever be able to truly gauge how good an education our children are getting. True and accurate measures of our children’s intelligence and their ability to think for themselves can only come from those who are close to, and personally know, the child.
An impersonal piece of paper is no measure of such a thing as unique and individual as each young person’s intelligence.
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