{"id":4200,"date":"2013-07-13T01:54:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4200"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:54:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:54:06","slug":"30-tests-vol-12-on-education-volume-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/12-on-education-volume-12\/30-tests-vol-12-on-education-volume-12","title":{"rendered":"-30_Tests.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nTESTS<\/font><\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Sometime I would like to know, Mother, Your intentions with regard
\nto regrouping these classes in the new year, whether with an examination or
\nwithout. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

I consider an examination as quite necessary. In any case there
\nwill be one in French. <\/span><\/p>\n

My love and blessings. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\u00a0<\/span>29 October
\n 1946<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is not by conventional examinations that students can be
\nselected for a class. It is only by developing in oneself the true
\npsychological sense. <\/span><\/p>\n

Select children who want to learn, not those who want to push themselves
\nforward. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

29 October
\n 1965<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

(Concerning
\ncheating in tests)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

What
\nshould I do? Must we do what is done outside put three teachers in a room to
\ninvigilate? The teachers do not like doing things in this way here in the
\nAshram. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Or
\nshould we abolish tests? I find this proposal doubtful, since the same thing
\nhappens with homework and essays. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

In
\nany case the problem exists, and in order to find the real solution we should
\nunderstand why the children behave like this. <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Please
\ntell me the cause of this misbehaviour and the solution to this problem. <\/span>
\n <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 201<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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\n

<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

It is very simple. It is because most of the children study
\nbecause they are compelled to do so by their families, by custom and prevalent
\nideas, and not because they want to learn
\nand know<\/span>. As long as their motive for studying is not rectified, as long
\nas they do not work because they want
\nto know<\/span>, they will find all kinds of tricks to make their work easier
\nand to obtain results with a minimum of effort. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>June 1967 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

(The Mother indicated that repetition of the statement below, a
\nhundred or a thousand times each day, until it becomes a living vibration,
\nwould help the student to instil in himself the right will and motive for
\nstudying. <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

To be repeated each day by all the students:)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

To be repeated each day by all the students:<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not for our family, it is not to secure a good position, it
\nis not to earn money, it is not to obtain a diploma, that we study.<\/span><\/p>\n

We study to learn, to know, to understand the world, and for the
\nsake of the joy that it gives us. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>June 1967 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The only solution is to annul this test and all that are to come.
\nKeep all the papers with you in a closed bundle \u2013 as something that has not
\nbeen \u2013 and continue quietly your classes. <\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of the year you will give notes to the students, not
\nbased on written test-papers, but on their behaviour, their concentration,
\ntheir regularity, their promptness to understand and their openness of
\nintelligence. <\/span><\/p>\n

For yourself you will take it as a discipline to rely more on inner
\ncontact, keen observation, and impartial outlook.  <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 202<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n

<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

For the students it will be the necessity of understanding truly
\nwhat they learn and not to repeat as a parrot what they have not fully
\nunderstood. <\/span><\/p>\n

And thus a true progress will have been made in the teaching. <\/span><\/p>\n

With blessings. <\/span><\/p>\n


\n\u00a0<\/span><\/i>21
\n July 1967<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

I find tests an obsolete and ineffective way of knowing if the
\nstudents are intelligent, willing and attentive. <\/span><\/p>\n

A silly, mechanical mind can very well answer a test if the memory
\nis good and these are certainly not the qualities required for a man of the
\nfuture. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is by tolerance for the old habits that I consented that those
\nwho want tests can have them. But I hope that in future this concession will
\nnot be necessary. <\/span><\/p>\n

To know if a student is good needs, if the tests are abolished, a
\nlittle more inner contact and psychological knowledge for the teacher. But our
\nteachers are expected to do Yoga, so this ought not to be difficult for them. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n


\n\u00a0<\/span><\/i>22
\n July 1967<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally the teacher has to test the student to know if he or she
\nhas learnt something and has made a progress. But this test must be individual
\nand adapted to each student, not the same mechanical test for all of them. It
\nmust be a spontaneous and unexpected test leaving no room for pretence and
\ninsincerity. Naturally also, this is much more difficult for the teacher but so
\nmuch more living and interesting also. <\/span><\/p>\n

I enjoyed your remarks about your students. They prove that you
\nhave an individual relation with them \u2013 and that is essential for good
\nteaching. <\/span><\/p>\n

Those who are insincere do not truly want to learn but to<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 203<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n

<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/span>get good marks or
\ncompliments from the teacher \u2013 they are not interesting. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n


\n\u00a0<\/span><\/i>25
\n July 1967<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What should be the criteria for giving prizes in our \u201cFree \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Progress Classes\u201d? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The prizes certainly should not be based on competitive grades. <\/span><\/p>\n

A prize of appreciation, of equivalent value, could be given to
\nthose who have exceeded a certain level of (1) capacity, plus<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>(2) goodwill and regularity
\nof effort. <\/span><\/p>\n

Both should be there to warrant the prize.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 204<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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