School exams 'stifle children's creativity'

My younger cousin is terrible at coursework, because she finds it extremely difficult to think creatively. But as she has an extremely eidetic memory, she can easily memorise every word in a textbook the night before an exam.

As most people do not have this lucky advantage, I cannot see how changing the exam will benefit the majority of students.

Memory is not all there is to learning, but it IS the foundation of ALL learning. If you have to look at your driver license to remember your own name, then you're probably not going to make it as a research physicist. Having sad that, many subjects are a lot of memory, e.g. history, etc.

What really disturbs me is that we are considering designing our educational system around the opinions of those who have no basis for comparison. I went to public school in the 50s & 60s, college in the late 60s and 70s, and have taken college graduate course along he way during every decade until the decade of 2010. In the USA, I can,without a doubt, say that schools are definitely easier and the population of young people who don't know any science or math is ridiculous, e.g. teen agers drinking drinks with liquid nitrogen in it.

surely this does exclude people, i personaly don't like exams as they are memory tests. What if you have bad memory then surely you are disadvantaged due to this change.

I personally think it’s wrong to change the current examination process. If you take away the assessed coursework, you’re putting added stress on one single exam. Just because a child isn’t great at coping with an exam situation doesn’t mean they are less competent or intelligent than someone that is. It just means that under those situations they could panic and not do as well as others.