Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by eulenteufel 1219 days ago
A problem with this attitude is how schools and their grading systems are teaching children the exact opposite. What matters are your grades in the end.

I feel like judging myself by my results and not by the process im going through was so deeply ingrained in me that even after years of trying I cannot get rid of it.

1 comments

SO is a high school teacher. This is her primary complaint about how we do things today. She talks a lot about the book Grading for Equity.

I'm of the opinion that traditional schooling is a bit of a zombie. There just isn't a way for an institution with that much inertia to keep up with a world that releases generalized search and chat-capable LLMs within 20 years of each other. Especially considering they're so underfunded that in places you don't even need to know a subject to get a job teaching it, because they don't have enough SMEs willing to work at the pay.