Question

Albert Einstein had the following sign in his office at Princeton: “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” As a high school student, your work is constantly being evaluated (or counted). What have your high school teachers “counted” that you think matters little? What should be “counted” that does not seem to weigh in your teachers' evaluations of whether you’ve learned the necessary material in the course?------- Can you guys provide some specific examples on how this quote can relate? Just wanting to bank off ideas at this point.

Answer 1

Many times in objective tests, we had to answer from memory such as the parts of the human anatomy: the skeletal, circulatory, muscular,digestive, and nervous systems among others. We received high marks if we answered completely; but what are they to us now? We should have been tested on our understanding of how such knowledge could be applied to our daily lives. The simple matters of feeling down that leads to depression could have been put importance in the study of the nervous system so that, somehow, many of us could have handled our struggles and pressures objectively.