“Being good at stupid games and lying convincingly are vital skills that get you far ahead in life” is not an immutable fact of life. It’s a societal problem to solve.
If the reason not to attack this “reward for deception” at school level is that there are other places in life that also reward deception, then the reasoning is completely cyclical and nothing can ever be done about it.
There are countries that run their college and university admissions almost entirely on hard standardized testing scores—i.e. Germany, Singapore, China, Korea, Russia, Ukraine. Some of those are fairly new, some have existed in a very similar form for many decades. So we know for certain that culling the “deception reward” is both possible and doesn’t result in immediate disaster.
“Being good at stupid games and lying convincingly are vital skills that get you far ahead in life” is not an immutable fact of life. It’s a societal problem to solve.
If the reason not to attack this “reward for deception” at school level is that there are other places in life that also reward deception, then the reasoning is completely cyclical and nothing can ever be done about it.
There are countries that run their college and university admissions almost entirely on hard standardized testing scores—i.e. Germany, Singapore, China, Korea, Russia, Ukraine. Some of those are fairly new, some have existed in a very similar form for many decades. So we know for certain that culling the “deception reward” is both possible and doesn’t result in immediate disaster.
I don’t think you understood me. I totally hate the system and wish it were different.
I was responding to the OP stating that it’s not immoral to deceive on college applications!