[lbo-talk] Chapter 2: Biology and Evolution

[Charles Brown]

, Michael Smith  wrote:
. Even multiple-choice ones (though the inexplicable torrent
> of bonehead questions Charles Brown has been treating us to
> lately do the genre very little honor).

^^^^^^
CB: They are only boneheaded and inexplicable to ignorant dogmatists
like Micheal Smith

^^^^^
>
> We ought to despise *grades*, but perhaps there's some usefulness
> in purely pass-fail tests. Like a driver's test, that sort of thing.  Something
> that shows a given level of mastery of some particular topic.
>
> Apart from that -- away with grades, away with curricula after, say,
> age 12, and away with homework, most of all, at least before the age of
> 18.
>
> Oh, and away with degrees. And admissions committees. Admission
> by lot!

^^^^^^^
CB : Hey away with school.