Michael: > > > IIRC you originally asserted that it was > > > pedagogically helpful to have this sevenfold way of defining > > > intelligence.
me: > > I'm not a very good teacher (since my social skills are abysmal), but > > I'm working on an idea to replace the current system of grading that > > we use. Michael: > Here I think we get to the heart of the problem: how do we grade? > I would set this question aside in favor of a different one: why > do we grade? -- And I would answer it, let's not. All these > elaborate psychometric exercises derive from the fact that the > schools have accepted -- nay, embraced -- their role as winnowers > and sorters of human raw material. nice idea. You're not a teacher, are you? -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
