The Unified State Exam is helpless against progress

I think that those who posted ready-made answers to the Unified State Exam in the Russian language on the Internet today should be grateful for the fact that they clearly demonstrated the undeniable dominance of technological progress over any artificial obstacles and all kinds of obstacles.

They showed that any technology, and the Unified State Examination is a technology, can be easily beaten by another technology. In the age of the Internet and the free movement of information, building artificial fences is simply pointless.

They showed that in an age when a problem can be approached technically, knowledge and skills have no value. And any appeals to conscience are meaningless, because the issue must again be approached technically.

While we, theorists, have long and persistently proven the harm, stupidity and unnecessaryness from a pedagogical point of view of the annual pompous mockery in the form of the Unified State Exam, the guys and girls from social networks have clearly demonstrated its inconsistency, its obsolescence in comparison with modern technological innovations and achievements.

Of course, after this incident with the leak of answers to the network, a new portion of promotion of new means of protection and defense of a procedure hated and despised by the majority of students and parents will follow. New financial injections will follow, additional funding will be required, and there will be talk about the development of new financial resources, so dear to the official’s heart, intended for the development of search programs, blocking sites, and the creation of super jammers. I wouldn’t be surprised if they think of transporting graduates to special isolated camps.

But all this is useless, because all these old-fashioned technologies will be beaten by other more modern technology.

Today, once again, it has become clear that only man can defeat technology, and only a good old oral exam, a good old essay, where you have to give not a standard, typical, but your own answer, the answer that you found here and now, can overcome all the forces of technical progress , because the question, original, unique, inimitable, was asked to you here and now.

The guys from social networks have once again shown that only the good old figure of the teacher, the good old Socratic dialogue between student and teacher makes sense and does not lose its relevance as an ideal form of control of knowledge.

Glory to technological progress, because ultimately it shows the greatness and indispensability of man.