Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an
explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or
rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for
learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best
ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of
grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to
bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do, an important
instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever
authority happens to be thrust over them.
Derrick Jensen
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