Dead on about the doctors though. I'm studying to be in pharmaceutical research, on the chemistry side, but I'm still in a lot of classes with pre-med kids. I would not trust the vast majority of my classmates with my health, in all honesty, as elitist as that sounds. Just scraping by is not good enough and I'm mildly scared to see how many of these characters get to move into graduate school. Grades are what are hopefully going to skim off the few I'd trust.
Well, you could carry this all the way back to kindergarten and say all of education is BS? That is kinda a "this world sucks" argument that I'm inclined to agree with. The problem is coming up with something demonstrably better.
I didn't stop learning how to learn, or finding more efficient ways to teach myself in the best way for me, in middle school. I am still learning how to perfect my metacognitive abilities, even now, and so I think a lot of people can take themselves much further than they thought possible in things like this.
Nice theory, and its true, in theory. But when was the last time anyone has ever in their entire lives (or even known of someone to do so) demanded to know a doctor's grade in (insert medical class here) It just doesn't happen. Even if someone did ask, and he/she replied, do you really think they would go on to ask to see proof as in a sealed transcript endorsed by the university? No. The little framed piece of paper (that may or may not be real) is all the proof 99% of us need. Why do you see the doctor you do? Because he does a good job. Why do you think Johnnie Cochran was so renowned? Because of his outstanding G.P.A.!? No, it was because of his performance. No one gives a s**t what he got in (insert law class here) people only care if he gets them off. Case in point: grades don't matter, performance does.
imonlysleepingJul 29, 2007
So your teacher indicted that what you were studying so hard for had no future use....
homerangJul 29, 2007
What do you call a doctor that graduated at the bottom of his class?Doctor.
tech42erJul 30, 2007
Good for him. We need more high school science teachers, at least for kids who really like science.
doronster195Jul 30, 2007
Possibly a B? Maybe a D?
kablaaamoJul 30, 2007
Dead on about the doctors though. I'm studying to be in pharmaceutical research, on the chemistry side, but I'm still in a lot of classes with pre-med kids. I would not trust the vast majority of my classmates with my health, in all honesty, as elitist as that sounds. Just scraping by is not good enough and I'm mildly scared to see how many of these characters get to move into graduate school. Grades are what are hopefully going to skim off the few I'd trust.
Closed AccountJul 30, 2007
Well, you could carry this all the way back to kindergarten and say all of education is BS? That is kinda a "this world sucks" argument that I'm inclined to agree with. The problem is coming up with something demonstrably better.
crackedplasticJul 31, 2007
It's a movie called (surprise) Arthur, starring Dudley Moore.
mmortal03Aug 1, 2007
I didn't stop learning how to learn, or finding more efficient ways to teach myself in the best way for me, in middle school. I am still learning how to perfect my metacognitive abilities, even now, and so I think a lot of people can take themselves much further than they thought possible in things like this.
agent81Aug 8, 2007
Nice theory, and its true, in theory. But when was the last time anyone has ever in their entire lives (or even known of someone to do so) demanded to know a doctor's grade in (insert medical class here) It just doesn't happen. Even if someone did ask, and he/she replied, do you really think they would go on to ask to see proof as in a sealed transcript endorsed by the university? No. The little framed piece of paper (that may or may not be real) is all the proof 99% of us need. Why do you see the doctor you do? Because he does a good job. Why do you think Johnnie Cochran was so renowned? Because of his outstanding G.P.A.!? No, it was because of his performance. No one gives a s**t what he got in (insert law class here) people only care if he gets them off. Case in point: grades don't matter, performance does.