Should a Nobel laureate be required to take the SATs?

[hunter]

11. College admissions are a big bag of worms.

Tests like the SAT are not a measure of intelligence, creativity or critical thinking skills. They are a measure of how well you take tests.

In my utopia, education is free for everyone, at any time of life. This competition for an artificially limited resource, a "college education," a competition that is tilted in favor of young people with wealthy parents, isn't making this world or this nation a better place.

The environmental impacts of students and teachers living on or near a school campus are minimal compared to the other things that occupy our attention, especially fossil fueled industry.

We need to abandon our high energy fossil fueled economic system. We are destroying ourselves and the environment that supports us.

Perhaps if everyone was at the very least literate and numerate, and many more of us had much greater levels of education and technical knowledge, then maybe we could figure a path out of this mess we've made for ourselves.