Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate

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Here are some things that I hated as a student. At the time, I thought they existed just because my teachers didn’t understand or care how terrible they were.

dynomight.net/teaching In a recent post, Parrhesia suggested that course grades should be 100% determined by performance on a final exam—and exam that could be taken repeatedly, with the last attempt being the course grade. (See also the discussion at r/slatestarcodex.) The idea is that grades are supposed to measure what you know, and if you do well on a final, then you know the material. Ha. Haha. Hahahahahahahaha. Now, I sympathize with this proposal. I largely agree with the central claim that this often would be more ethical and accurate than grades based on a mixture of homework and…

Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate

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