back in grad school, a friend of mine who was doing a PhD in a liberal arts subject was a TA, and the kids got upset because he gave some of them C's on essays because "you can't all be above average"Basically, most of us (I mean people in general) are average, and so we become greedy in order not to feel average.
My maths teacher in high school was a skilled ego-terminator: "Einstein was excellent, the rest of us are just good, at best." We couldn't really argue against that obviously, and she taught us relativity theory at the same time. So we never complained about not getting an A.back in grad school, a friend of mine who was doing a PhD in a liberal arts subject was a TA, and the kids got upset because he gave some of them C's on essays because "you can't all be above average"Basically, most of us (I mean people in general) are average, and so we become greedy in order not to feel average.
In my school and alma mater grades were published as in 1, 2,3,,etc.My maths teacher in high school was a skilled ego-terminator: "Einstein was excellent, the rest of us are just good, at best." We couldn't really argue against that obviously, and she taught us relativity theory at the same time. So we never complained about not getting an A.back in grad school, a friend of mine who was doing a PhD in a liberal arts subject was a TA, and the kids got upset because he gave some of them C's on essays because "you can't all be above average"Basically, most of us (I mean people in general) are average, and so we become greedy in order not to feel average.
Bad teacher. Bad relationship.My maths teacher in high school was a skilled ego-terminator: "Einstein was excellent, the rest of us are just good, at best." We couldn't really argue against that obviously, and she taught us relativity theory at the same time. So we never complained about not getting an A.back in grad school, a friend of mine who was doing a PhD in a liberal arts subject was a TA, and the kids got upset because he gave some of them C's on essays because "you can't all be above average"Basically, most of us (I mean people in general) are average, and so we become greedy in order not to feel average.
She was British.What I find amusing is how competitive the country is in all things sports (nationalistic, win the world cup??) but in academia society is happy with '6 mentality'.
cuch, what is '6 mentality'?What I find amusing is how competitive the country is in all things sports (nationalistic, win the world cup??) but in academia society is happy with '6 mentality'.