objective v subjective

I agree with chung in questioning why we are learning what we are learning.....and why the "authority" of knowledge determines that an educated person should have a certain body of memorized facts and information ready to be regurgitated at any given moment....i also think that knowledge and the way we test it (through quizzes, tests, etc) has certain limitations because factual knowledge often coincides with the opinions of the person answering th questions.....like on the quiz, although i believe that i understand the concepts behind the "ways of knowing" i felt that some of the multiple choice questions would be better answered in a free response form because i could support my answer with my own opinions and my own argument.

To address Mr. Perkin's question on how he should present our "knowledge" to another person or how that person would be adequately able to determine our own grasp of the concept matter...... i think for another person( or college, etc) to be even close to grasping an individual's amount of knowledge...they would have to perform a 1 on 1 interview...andthat is so time consuming, that not enough questions could be even asked to make an accurate inference on someone else's amount of knowledge. I feel like teachers design tests in a way to shorten this process...and the grades (from a conglomeration of assignments to demonstrate our wide variety of ways to PRESENT our knowledge) are somehow supposed to reflect how much we have learned.....but really do they reflect the knowlegde i've obtained? i think they more reflect the way i can manipulate the "facts" and information that my teacher has given me into a way that pleases the grader enough to give me an acceptable grade???
so i guess i think being too objective is bad in someregards...but being too subjective often skews how much knowledge an individual really has....hmmm.