[hardy263]

Well, that was what the author of the article was trying to tell us, wasn't it? Don't give marks and they'll be intellectually curious.

Anecdote: I was really good at school at a young age, and I would get easy 80s in all my classes, so I never cared about marks, so that made me intellectually curious at a young age.

[randomdata]

An alternative anecdote: I often received poor marks in school because I was curious about learning things that were unrelated to what was being taught at the given time.

I distinctly remember sitting in high school math class solving some mathematical problems that were to be taught later because it was interesting and applicable to my learning needs at that point in time. The topic the teacher wanted to teach that day was not applicable to the problems I needed to solve at that moment, so it made no sense to learn it on that very day.

If marks had been a concern of mine, I would have had to have given my teachers at least some attention, taking time away from my education.

[TeMPOraL]

Another anecdote: instead of doing math homeworks and paying 100% attention to the classes I started to learn programming, because I wanted to make games. I could program stuff at 13, and - thought having bad math grades ever since - learned the material I missed later, in a way that was more/less related to game development or my other needs.

[abiekatz]

The post provides a great anecdote but I am just saying that more research should be done on the issue.

Yeah, I think not giving grades is a great potential way to encourage intellectual curiosity. Has there been any controlled experiments on this issue? Also is this practical during primary and secondary education? I don't know.

I think some students without marks would become more intellectually curious while other students might just not do the work and just play video games instead. It's a tricky topic.