Posted on 08/06/2019 1:39:42 PM PDT by Maceman
A New York professor is calling for the abolition of grades. He claims they are not only unfair to students, but that they are a means of propping up capitalism, and as such, academia would be better off doing away with grading entirely.
“Grading takes up much of my time that could be better spent on teaching or otherwise directly interacting with students,” New School professor Richard Wolff wrote in a Monday op-ed entitled “Grades Are Capitalism in Action. Let’s Get Them Out of Our Schools.” He claims the practice of administering grades to students has “little educational payoff” and “disrespects [students] as thinking people.”
"Disrespects [students] as thinking people" Tweet This Wolff has been known to promote Marxism and condemn capitalism, even going so far as to blame capitalism for American homelessness. More recently, he made headlines by comparing President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler on Twitter.
According to Wolff, the practice of grading is one that has served to prop up America’s capitalist economic system and its “major failures,” including "socially divisive inequalities” and the creation of “boring, dangerous, and/or mind-numbing” jobs. He asserts that capitalism’s survival can be attributed only to flawed human ideologies, one of which is the concept of “meritocracy.” Grades, he says, are one of many “mechanisms” used to “anchor” the concept of meritocracy in society. . . .
Wolff teaches economics at the New School and is listed by his former employer, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as an “expert” on economics.
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He is “directly interacting” with then when he gives them their grades.
Then why go to school?
Lets get rid of the NEA...
Adolph Hitler was on Twitter???
In the 70’s while in High School I remember laughing at idiot teachers (fresh out of college) like this along with about 3/4 of the class when they spouted nonsense. You could see what was coming down the pike once the later generations got worn down.
I met my first Marxist professor over 50 years ago. Even he was not as brainless as this fellow.
Just mail me my degree.
Making me sit in class is part of the capitalist cisgendered white nationalist patriarchy.
Gibsmedat degree foo.
That is precisely why we shouldn’t get rid of them. Professors though are socialism in action so adios.
But grading on a curve is socialism; you bring someone down to bring someone else up.
So is his paycheck.
Get rid of the Professor instead
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How is this guy even qualified to teach? If grades were “capitalism” then you could trade them, buy them, sell them, rent them, earn interest on them, lose money on them etc...
I do think there is a fair amount of subjectivity in grading things like essays and papers. Less so obviously in the sciences.
You want a great example of “capitalism ruining education”, note that Elizabeth Warren was paid $400,000 to teach one class. Kids are taking on debt to line her pockets and the pockets of people like her.
So are the medical boards exams.
I suppose he’d like to do away with those, too.
A New York professor is calling for the abolition of grades. He claims they are not only unfair to students, but that they are a means of propping up capitalism, and as such, academia would be better off doing away with grading entirely.
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Hey Prof. You know what’s even more evil and capitalistic than grades?
Incomes for idiot college professors.
We certainly and definitely could abolish that, now couldn’t we?
Extremely stupid and uninformed.
They used to have grades in the communist countries in E. Europe and the Soviet Union.
His paycheck should be eliminated because it anchors the concept of meritocracy in society.
Hey, do away with classes and just award everyone with a diploma. Or are diplomas too capitalist?
Certainly this “professor” would refuse to be paid more than lower ranking employees. Actually, they should all be co-owners. Maduro needs help in Venezuela, go teach there.
Christians, get your beloved children out of schools dominated by wrong and vile doctrines.
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