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Optimizing for grades kills passion
Hire and retain best teachers → Measure test performance → “Teaching the test”
Sriram Krishnan • Building something no one else can measure
The flaw in the educational system, as far as I see it, is that you live your life - teachers and students - in the quest of As. Yet later in life, the A is irrelevant. - Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what their professors teach is
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
"We teach every young person the same subjects in mostly the same ways, irrespective of individual talents and preferences. Students who don’t learn best by sitting still at a desk are made to feel somehow inferior, while children who excel on conventional measures like tests and assignments end up defining their identities in terms of this weirdly... See more