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Trinidad & Tobago: Is Education Really About Learning?

Categories: Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago, Citizen Media, Education

Why, oh why, did I fail what is clearly a basic english class?

The easy answer – I didn’t try hard enough […] The more complicated answer lies in a system so rigid that I am required to take freshman english despite all proof and indications to the contrary.

Trinidad diaspora blogger CunningLinguist laments the failings of the modern education system [1], as he comes to realisation that “higher education is not about learning, it’s about about checking boxes”.