My good friend Will

Ok so Will is a guy I met through Lauren and McKenna. He is from Nigeria and just finished his undergrad in Law and is going to the equivalant of our Law School next year. He's a brilliant guy, who is blown away by the American school system.

He and I were at the Penny the other night talking about the differences between American schools and European schools. I asked him about multiple choice tests, and he told me he as never taken one. All of his upper level classes have more indepth, subjective ways of measuring intelligence. He said that he can't believe that using a multiple choice test is a good way of teaching. Law is too subjective to be objectified into 4 answers with one question. Why not four rebuttle questions to 4 answers? Will freaking blew my mind with that quote...he's a good guy.

Well in the book the quote about 'Education, in contrast, should provide the skills for people to stand on their own two feet and to make their own decisions; it should encourage critical thiking.' Unlike the S.A.T, very much so like (I swear I'm not sucking up) the way that my Persuasion class is run. More of a subjective view on the way we are persuaded and influenced; everything from Penny conversations with Will, to signs around Canterbury.