The Overvaluing of Memory
I don't remember the specifics of a great many things. I do, however, remember where to locate these specifics when need be. And when referred to quite often, these items may or may not become permanently accessible to me, without the aid of external reference.
The point is that a test does not reflect reality at all. When we are doing a job, we have access to all sorts of information-bearing devices. But for some reason, I'm sure, very powerfully laid out - full of sound and fury, signifying nothing - one is not permitted to have these devices during the test. One may only access the information stored within the cholesterol repository located in the skull of the test-victim's head. Why should we be forced to use only one memory storage and recovery device, when technology offers us so many additional options?
Personally, I am embittered by my many varied and painful experiences with such traditional notions, and find them to be entirely without merit. They are obvious and odious means to exclude, and exclusion of this kind, as of many kinds, serves to oppress people. The ironic part is that, within the hallowed halls of the ivory tower, the most exclusionary and elitist place there is, one can study oppression with the goal of ending it, all-the-while participating in the same exclusionary practices being roundly excoriated.
Classic.
The point is that a test does not reflect reality at all. When we are doing a job, we have access to all sorts of information-bearing devices. But for some reason, I'm sure, very powerfully laid out - full of sound and fury, signifying nothing - one is not permitted to have these devices during the test. One may only access the information stored within the cholesterol repository located in the skull of the test-victim's head. Why should we be forced to use only one memory storage and recovery device, when technology offers us so many additional options?
Personally, I am embittered by my many varied and painful experiences with such traditional notions, and find them to be entirely without merit. They are obvious and odious means to exclude, and exclusion of this kind, as of many kinds, serves to oppress people. The ironic part is that, within the hallowed halls of the ivory tower, the most exclusionary and elitist place there is, one can study oppression with the goal of ending it, all-the-while participating in the same exclusionary practices being roundly excoriated.
Classic.
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