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 As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider. E. M. Forster (1879-1970)
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Quotation of the Day As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider. E. M. Forster (1879-1970)
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I think we should always ask questions about the purpose of education. Is it for socialization? social promotion? earning money? Knowledge? If we are aware of our specific needs, aspirations, and deficiencies then we can manage to find the appropriate answers.
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And learning in the broader sense, is part of your everyday life. It is not to be neglected, nor to be looked down upon.
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(Edward Morgan Forster), 1879–1970, English author, one of the most important British novelists of the 20th cent. After graduating from Cambridge, Forster lived in Italy and Greece. During World War I he served with the International Red Cross in Egypt. In 1946, Forster became an honorary fellow of King's College, Cambridge, where he lived until his death. He received the Order of Merit in 1968.
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Daemon wrote:As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider. E. M. Forster (1879-1970) Yeah. I also hate exams, but is it fair to pin all blame on it alone? Learning will find its way, just like love does. Wait and see.
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Context from: Aspects of the NovelChapter I
INTRODUCTORY“Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control the education of the Empire, we lend to the Press such distinction as it consents to receive, and we are a welcome asset at dinner-parties. Pseudo-scholarship is, on its good side, the homage paid by ignorance to learning. It also has an economic side, on which we need not be hard. Most of us must get a job before thirty, or sponge on our relatives, and many jobs can only be got by passing an exam. The pseudo-scholar often does well in examination (real scholars are not much good), and even when he fails he appreciates their inner majesty. They are gateways to employment, they have power to ban and bless. A paper on King Lear may lead somewhere, unlike the rather far-fetched play of the same name. It may be a stepping-stone to the Local Government Board. He does not often put it to himself openly and say, "That's the use of knowing things, they help you to get on." The economic pressure he feels is more often subconscious, and he goes to his exam, merely feeling that a paper on King Lear is a very tempestuous and terrible experience but an intensely real one. ...As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment were contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.” https://books.google.com/books?id=FLS1tV-UXawC&pg=PT10&lpg=PT10&dq=As+long+as+learning+is+connected+with+earning,+as+long+as+certain+jobs+can+only+be+reached+through+exams,+so+long+must+we+take+this+examination+system+seriously.+If+another+ladder+to+employment+was
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