Maastricht Treaty revisions needed?

[ShadowHM]

I do not believe that it is possible 'to educate' or 'to teach'. I believe that it is only possible 'to learn'. That is the active process. The others are, at best, ways to facilitate learning, and, all too often, no more than a waste of time that could actually have been spent learning. The primary function of a school is not to teach, but to determine and record how much a person has learned.

But that's another book.

--Pete

Maybe it's different in the States, but over here, the primary function of a school is to teach.

I think this is a quibble over semantics. Students attend school (ostensibly) to learn. Schools are required to teach students so that they may learn. However, our society insists on measuring everything. And thus schools are required to determine and record how much students have learned so that said students may continue on to other endeavors with certificates in hand that have a value in society - socially or economically or both.

Teaching is the process but production of the certificates is the required outcome.

Schools that fail to produce such documents don't last long here. I suspect the same is true in Denmark.