{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["education","grades","grading","teachers","teaching"],"id":3764,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"There are strategies to score or to be ahead but there is one strategy to learn which is curiosity.","author":"Ronald Tudu","tags":["curiosity","grades","learning","score","strategy"],"id":3791,"author_id":"Ronald+Tudu"},{"text":"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.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["academics","betterment","character","college","curiosity","development","education","ethics","grades","growth","helping-others","higher-education","humility","inferiority","journey","knowledge","learning","morality","personality","power","professor","scholar","school","skill","status","superiority","teacher","university"],"id":18944,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Grades are still important, buy they are not the most important things. As clichéd as it is, the things you learn outside class is more important than the textbooks you blindly memorize in time for exams.","author":"Marcella Purnama","tags":["grades","learning","life-lessons","studying"],"id":41726,"author_id":"Marcella+Purnama"},{"text":"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.","author":"Derrick Jensen","tags":["education","grades","politics","teaching","writing"],"id":87950,"author_id":"Derrick+Jensen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Chamera Sampson","tags":["grades","mask","teen"],"id":108774,"author_id":"Chamera+Sampson"},{"text":"As you work to become a better student, remember that learning is far more important than the numbers on your transcript. I know it can be hard sometimes to remember what you're in school for. In some places, students go crazy over a tenth of a point - but this is an unhealthy and unsustainable way to manage your education. The real reason you're in school is to grow as a person and fulfill your potential.","author":"Stefanie Weisman","tags":["grades","learning","students"],"id":116611,"author_id":"Stefanie+Weisman"},{"text":"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.","author":"Robert M. Pirsig","tags":["education","grades","grading-systems","learning","public-school","school-system","teaching"],"id":122187,"author_id":"Robert+M.+Pirsig"},{"text":"I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.","author":"Gayle Forman","tags":["as","college","credits","grade-conscious","grades","graduate","high-school","honor-roll","honors","life","school","student","teacher"],"id":127615,"author_id":"Gayle+Forman"},{"text":"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.","author":"Emun Elliott","tags":["doing","grades","three "],"id":176384,"author_id":"Emun+Elliott"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}