No one is standard, everyone is unique. Everyone learns differently, everyone has a different natural intelligence. Why then, does any education system make a 'standardized' test?

Who can say "PLAGIARIST!"?

In reading and working through this "great philosopher"'s works, the man had no original thoughts outside of his commentaries on, e.g. Parminides. Everything else, his "Being and Time," and other "great" works, have no original thought to them whatsoever. For example, Heidegger is well known to have read many of the great texts of the east and one of those authors is Dogen - the great Zen philosopher. One of Dogen's greatest works is called "Uji" or "Being-time." Heidegger's "Being and Time" has an uncanny resemblance of Dogen's "Uji"... coincidence? Yet Heidegger has the hubris to say, to paraphrase, that "philosophy is what makes the West distinctly West."

Further, when a "great philosopher"'s philosophy is so completely devoid of ethics and morality that he can justify membership in the Nazi party... Why is he ever read?

Heidegger's Anit-Hubris: Read Dogen, Nagarjuna, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, Shankra, etc., you don't need to waist your time on the plagiarist Heidegger!