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Adults say it is all for the children, but they have turned schools into machines for sorting people.

What do test scores and rankings really measure? The official answer is "ability." But in practice, those numbers work like a sieve that decides which school you go to, which job you get, and even how much money you will earn. When adults say they want to help children reach their potential, there is often another wish underneath: that their own child will stay in the top part of the sieve. Schools are trusted because they rank students, and companies take the easy road by choosing people by the name of their school. And you, reading this, have probably judged someone by their score, or looked down on yourself because of yours. The people who have gained the most from this system are the least eager to change it. As a result, learning stops being the joy of finding things out and becomes a task you do so you will not lose, and once the exam is over, much of what was learned is thrown away. The problem is not competition itself. The problem is that a number from one exam day in your teens keeps being used as a measure of your worth for decades. As long as society asks where you studied instead of what you learned, schools will not change. Hiring and evaluation should stop asking for school names, and it should be normal for anyone, at any age, to study again and try again. Only when we change the measuring stick can schools become places for learning once more.

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