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"I got an A on the third quiz in American history,
an A,
dammit.
Last time I got a B
up from a C
and my father said,
"if you can get a C
you can get a B,
if you can get a B
you can get an A."-
I got an A
and my father said,
"grades don't mean anything."
― Thalia Chaltas, Because I Am Furniture
"As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn't have it. It seemed to come later on, possibly as a result of school itself.
That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything – from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it."
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
"Would I cheat to save my soul?
No.
But to save my G.P.A.?
Yes."
― Julie Anne Peters, Luna
"Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true typically turn out to be those accustomed to being controlled— those who are not trusted, given explanations, encouraged to think for themselves, helped to develop and internalize good values, and so on. Control breeds the need for more control, which is used to justify the use of control."
― Alfie Kohn, Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
"Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can go through an entire quarter leaving absolutely nothing memorable in the minds of his class, curve out the scores on an irrelevant test, and leave the impression that some have learned and some have not. But if the grades are removed the class is forced to wonder each day what it's really learning. The questions, What's being taught? What's the goal? How do the lectures and assignments accomplish the goal? become ominous. The removal of grades exposes a huge and frightening vacuum."
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
"I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade."
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
"I mask my hate. I mask my pain. One thing that I can't mask is my dwindling grade point average." -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears"
― Chamera M. Sampson
"I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A."
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"Robert said, "This is great, huh? Sorry to butt in and everything, but I really need the extra points. For my grade."
Ben nodded and tried to smile. Right, for his grade. He probably wanted to get an A++ in social studies instead of just an A+"
― Andrew Clements, We the Children
"I am a one-trick pony, unable to comfort with anything other than grades."
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"Your grades and degrees doesn't reflects your true education."
― Inu Etc
"अगर आपकी पहचान आपके अंकों* से है, तो आपकी कोई पहचान नहीं
If you are famous for your scores* then you are known for nothing
*scores/ wealth/ salary/ marks/ grades/ certificates/ titles/ likes/ followers
Marks help you know your progress while learning. Post that Marks are irrelevant.
Let not Wealth/ Salary/ Certificates/ Marks/ Grades become your Journey!"
― Vineet Raj Kapoor
"THE OBSESSION WITH GRADES HAMPERS LEARNING
अंकों से प्रेम, विद्वत्ता क्षेम"
― Vineet Raj Kapoor
"Saying something is 'fine' is giving that idea a C or C-."
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
"Grades are just entered into a computer like everything else is entered into a computer. Computers can be hacked."
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
"B students don't deserve mixers."
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
"Even boring classes are ones you must get A's in. The stakes are too high, the payoff too important."
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
"She's a twenty-three-year-old. By this time, people become at least Grade C while she started the grade race only seven years ago."
― Misba, The High Auction
"Some of you may consider my teaching techniques rather casual. Others will wonder how I arrive at your proper grade. There is no mystery here. I grade partly from examination results, partly from a subjective, or even subconscious, evaluation. I must admit that beautiful girls face a special handicap; I must constantly guard against giving these delicious creatures all that they want and more. I might add that ugly girls fare no better, since then I must take into account my kindly pangs of guilt and pity."
Ottillie Veder said: "I am a girl. How will I know whether my bad grade is because you admire me or because you find me disgusting and repulsive?"
"Nothing could be simpler. Arrange to meet me out on the beach with a blanket and a bottle of good wine. If I do not appear, your most pessimistic fears will be confirmed."
― Jack Vance, Araminta Station
"If I had to take any standardized test today that was important to my future and would be assessed by the scoring processes I have long been a part of, I promise you I would protest, I would fight, I would sue, I would go on a hunger strike or march on Washington ... but I would never allow that massive and ridiculous business to have any say in my future without battling it to the bitter, bitter end.
Do what you want, America, but at least you have been warned."
― Todd Farley, Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry
"I have seen the fruits of adult education. It can be done. And anyone who has worked in adult education knows that he must appeal for self-help. There are no monitors to keep adults at the task. There are no examinations and grades, none of the machinery of external discipline. The person who learns something out of school is self-disciplined. He works for merit in his own eyes, not credit from the registrar. (1940 ed. page 104)"
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
"Instead of assigning grades according to merit, plan to simply add all my student's scores together and divide by the total number of students. Since I grade on a bell curve, this means that every student---every semester in every class---will receive a grade of 'C'. Nothing would please Karl Marx more than knowing that regardless of talent or effort everyone will get the same outcome in my classes."
― Mike Adams, Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" on Campus
"Marks are a currency with which we buy knowledge. Currency (marks) does not know whether you pick up what you ordered."
― Vineet Raj Kapoor
"Let not marks become the journey
GRADES/ SCORES/ MARKS ARE JUST THE MILESTONES NEVER THE JOURNEY"
― Vineet Raj Kapoor
"Nobody really cares about or checks your GPA after college, except for, like, grad schools, who only barely do, taking a whole lot of other things into consideration."
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
"I got a C because she has no imagination. Who cares about writing essays, anyway, when you can write stories?"
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
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