When my son and I were in school in Cuba, we never had a multiple choice question as part of a test. I bet he had some at the University of Kansas when he was attending college, and I saw a few here while teaching at the high school. However, I never used them.
At KU, for graduate students’ “stuff” (sounds so academic!), they used essays as mind-squeezers.
So in conclusion, the only multiple choice I’ve been confronted with is life itself. However, many times it would be great to have different options in this “rented life” on Earth. Many people make plans for the future, stay in that lane of the highway and navigate as nicely as possible. What are the rest of them doing? Probably letting the current take them in any direction.
Human beings are very optimistic, and if you have any doubts, ask any hurricane victim, any refugee or a list of a doctor’s patients who are terminal and yesterday, just yesterday, were successfully sketching their future and working in their coloring book. Next, there is another chapter as interesting,
People get married, have children, buy a home and insurance are loved by most everyone. And then they get a divorce. Their children live far and away, they sell home for less, and insurance is over. Relatives, friends and neighbors are facing their own heavy rain and flooding. Did anybody represented in here have a chance to choose from a multiple choice?
Do you think multiple choice is an option? Does it work? I have seen many multiple-choice tests, and I remember many times there was a choice that was a joke. However, the student was caught in the trap. Maybe because it sounded right, or he didn’t study, or he just got confused. Wouldn’t it be possible that we commit the same mistake in life?
Let’s suppose there is an option to read a chapter of a book and tell a teacher what we think we have read. Right here, we are looking at another possible mirage. But choosing an answer on a multiple-choice test would be like trying to shoot at a bull’s-eye for the first time.
Besides, it could be possible that the right answer is “all of the above” in both academics and in life. By now, confusion reigns. I believe I would be scary to select it. Do you know why? Because it sounds too easy. Many people take the wrong way of transportation in life because the right direction was so easy they didn’t care to take it.
But let’s go to another chapter, in which your multiple choices come from a doctor about your health, or the decision to study a career, choosing the other half as if it were a business partner — sharing money but also bed, letting a grown-up child come back home to stay with someone you don’t like, buying a luxury car today, or just buying today’s stocks. In each, there is more than one solution, none easy. But you have to decide one way or the other. And look carefully to prices if you decide the answer is “all the above.”
In many instances, we don’t even have a choice, much less multiple ones. But keep in mind that decisions stay. So let’s take a close look at your canvas. It might need to be larger, and definitely plan colors and brushes accordingly.
I’ve heard the other day a saying by John Lennon, one of the Beatles: “Life goes on its own way, while you try to live it your way.”
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When my son and I were in school in Cuba, we never had a multiple choice question as part of a test. I bet he had some at the University of Kansas when he was attending college, and I saw a few here while teaching at the high school. However, I never used them.
At KU, for graduate students’ “stuff” (sounds so academic!), they used essays as mind-squeezers.
So in conclusion, the only multiple choice I’ve been confronted with is life itself. However, many times it would be great to have different options in this “rented life” on Earth. Many people make plans for the future, stay in that lane of the highway and navigate as nicely as possible. What are the rest of them doing? Probably letting the current take them in any direction.
Human beings are very optimistic, and if you have any doubts, ask any hurricane victim, any refugee or a list of a doctor’s patients who are terminal and yesterday, just yesterday, were successfully sketching their future and working in their coloring book. Next, there is another chapter as interesting,
People get married, have children, buy a home and insurance are loved by most everyone. And then they get a divorce. Their children live far and away, they sell home for less, and insurance is over. Relatives, friends and neighbors are facing their own heavy rain and flooding. Did anybody represented in here have a chance to choose from a multiple choice?
Do you think multiple choice is an option? Does it work? I have seen many multiple-choice tests, and I remember many times there was a choice that was a joke. However, the student was caught in the trap. Maybe because it sounded right, or he didn’t study, or he just got confused. Wouldn’t it be possible that we commit the same mistake in life?
Let’s suppose there is an option to read a chapter of a book and tell a teacher what we think we have read. Right here, we are looking at another possible mirage. But choosing an answer on a multiple-choice test would be like trying to shoot at a bull’s-eye for the first time.
Besides, it could be possible that the right answer is “all of the above” in both academics and in life. By now, confusion reigns. I believe I would be scary to select it. Do you know why? Because it sounds too easy. Many people take the wrong way of transportation in life because the right direction was so easy they didn’t care to take it.
But let’s go to another chapter, in which your multiple choices come from a doctor about your health, or the decision to study a career, choosing the other half as if it were a business partner — sharing money but also bed, letting a grown-up child come back home to stay with someone you don’t like, buying a luxury car today, or just buying today’s stocks. In each, there is more than one solution, none easy. But you have to decide one way or the other. And look carefully to prices if you decide the answer is “all the above.”
In many instances, we don’t even have a choice, much less multiple ones. But keep in mind that decisions stay. So let’s take a close look at your canvas. It might need to be larger, and definitely plan colors and brushes accordingly.
I’ve heard the other day a saying by John Lennon, one of the Beatles: “Life goes on its own way, while you try to live it your way.”
