Yesterday I was studying with a friend. She was working on some projects for her drawing class, and I was reading some material for a class that I am auditing. Seeing that my energies were on this class as opposed to on classes in which I am fully enrolled, she began to yell at me to do my "real" homework.
I told her that this was stuff that I wanted to learn, whereas the material from my other classes was less interesting and engaging.
"But you're not going to get a grade in that class."
"...get a grade..."
Grades. Damn grades. Damn them because they strip the meaning out of education. What ought to be driven by curiosity and a fundamental desire for knowledge (too idealistic?), instead is driven by the "yes" of pleasing people. The "yes" of meeting societal standards so that we can have "success."
Hypothesis: Grades have damned us to be yes-men and women if we are to have worldly success.
-nate bozarth
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