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Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.Suzy Kassem
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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
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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
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This question of grades being coercive, and of politics being inherent in teaching, applies not only to writing, but to all fields. Mathematics, science, economics, history, religion, are all just as deeply and necessarily political. To believe they’re not–to believe, for example, that science (or mathematics, economics, history, religion, and so forth: choose your poison) describes the world as it is, rather than acting as a filter that removes all information that does not fit the model and colors the information that remains–is in itself to take a position, one that is all the more powerful and dangerous because it is invisible to the one who holds it.Derrick Jensen
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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
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Playing to passion when you can will keep students motivated and working toward mastery.Starr Sackstein
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Your old grade book is a waste of space and time. Don't hesitate just throw it Out.Starr Sackstein
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It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.Criss Jami
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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
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If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.Criss Jami
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My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.Lailah Gifty Akita
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My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.Lailah Gifty Akita
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There are strategies to score or to be ahead but there is one strategy to learn which is curiosity.Ronald Tudu
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I got an A on the third quiz in American history, an A, dammit. Last time I got a Bup from a Cand my father said, "if you can get a Cyou can get a B, if you can get a Byou can get an A."-I got an Aand my father said, "grades don't mean anything.Thalia Chaltas
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I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.Gayle Forman
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This time Elizabeth Ann didn't answer, because she herself didn't know what the matter was. But I do, and I'll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school. She had always thought she was there to pass from one grade to another, and she was ever so startled to get a little glimpse of the fact that she was there to learn how to read and write and cipher and generally use her mind, so she could take care of herself when she came to be grown up. Of course, she didn't really know that till she did come to be grown up, but she had her first dim notion of it in that moment, and it made her feel the way you do when you're learning to skate and somebody pulls away the chair you've been leaning on and says, "Now, go it alone! .Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didn't wear off, but I found other interests.Emun Elliott
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When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.Joe Biden
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If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.Stockwell Day