Thought for My Day: Truth in Life Is Not Whether We Can Remember What We Learned in School but Whether We Are Prepared for Change

We were less interested in whether students can simply reproduce what they have learned in school, but we wanted to test whether they can extrapolate from what they know and apply their knowledge in novel situations. Now, some people have criticized us for this. They say, you know, such a way of measuring outcomes is terribly unfair to people, because we test students with problems they havent seen before. But if you take that logic, you know, you should consider life unfair, because the test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change, whether we are prepared for jobs that havent been created, to use technologies that havent been invented, to solve problems we just cant anticipate today.

via Andreas Schleicher: Use data to build better schools | Video on TED.com.