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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
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?
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I don't know what you're arguing with here, as what you say agrees with what I said. I neither said nor implied that I think someone should be downgraded for doing "A" work if that comes easily to them.
Here is the statement to which I was responding, and my response:
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Originally Posted by rainheart
I've met so many students who are actually intelligent but perform poorly in school, and tonnes of dull and unperceptive students who sacrifice everything to get more time to study and perform well in school, and I get disappointed everytime I see something like that.
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Originally Posted by Gilda
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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Rainheart referenced two specific groups. Those are smart but perform poorly, and those who aren't as smart, but do well due to hard work, and complained that that was a bad thing. I disagreed. Rewarding performance due to hard work is a good thing. Smart people who don't perform shouldn't be rewarded just because they are smart.
I'm pretty sure we're in agreement here.
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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.
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This is exactly the reason why getting good grades should be hard, and B's shouldn't be seen as the baseline performance. Airline pilots and pharmacists and PhD's are among society's elite when it comes to their respective professions, and the standards for these jobs should be very high because we routinely expect outstanding performance of their duties.
6th and 7th grade humanities and 8th grade life skills at the middle school level, and children's literature at the college level.
Gilda