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Originally Posted by Gilda
I agree with you at least partly here. I'm not impressed with any school or class where getting an A isn't difficult.
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I agree with this part. These days, even the so-called "best" schools have been dumbed down. It's become common knowledge that it's harder to get into Harvard than out of it.
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We're just the opposite here. I celebrate hard work that results in outstanding performance. We can't control how smart we are, but we can cotrol how much effort we put into things. Smart people who don't work hard don't deserve to succeed solely because they are intelligent.
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Gotta disagree. If I need a brain surgeon, I want the one who gets the best results, regardless of whether it's easy or hard for him. That's true in most other scenarios that come to mind. Why in the world would a person be downgraded for "A" work that he or she happened to be able to accomplish easily?
To get back to the subject of the post, I think Cs suck. They would have kept me from getting where I wanted to go, and the standards I have for myself and my kids are to be better than average.
Put another way, I don't want my water 50% pure, my airplane to land properly 80% of the time, or my pharmacist to get things right 80% of the time.
BTW, what do you teach?