Removing the metaphor questions from the SATs was a way of suppressing genius in favor of conformity— at a systemic level.
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They got rid of it because you can’t teach or prepare for it. Grasping metaphorical logic & inventing metaphor is a fundamentally mysterious human faculty which is correlated with creative genius.
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You still can't really teach the SAT language sections, to be fair. That's why they're looking at scrapping it entirely and moving to a connections-based system
