Are we building minds or just seeing who doesn't make the cut?
I reply that the idea of a grade based educational system is quite antiquated.
The goal is to build a man and a woman into an esteemed leader and scholar.
Does applying a grade card involve us in the fruitation of the betterment of mankind or does it just segregate us into categories of acheivers verses the rest?
In all, do colleges really need your GPA to say whether you could do a challenging curriculum?
Do the colleges need to apply a grade system to their students?
I did go to medical school which to me is more advanced in many ways than the rest of the curriculums in this planets educational systems.
We had Pass Fail. And honors if you were so guilded.
What is wrong with this all across the board?
This is the problem with education today:
We stigmatize our students with C grades, we belittle them with B grades and of course we denigrate them completely with a D.
Give an Failing grade to those who are completely abhorrent of the educational process. Get them on another track or get them well again.
But lets fail to completely destroy the children's futures today by segregating them with grade cards.
This is a 1950s approach to learning and we are still doing it 60 years later.
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