[Spivak]

God I hate this take. This mythologizes grades as an end rather than a means. I much prefer the world where tests are written with the expectation that people who've mastered the material get an A rather than the endless hamster wheel where the test gets harder until you get a distribution centered at C.

I would have burnt out on my schooling so fast as to make it worthless. How demoralizing it must be when every test is designed so that you won't know all the answers. Why even bother trying? I'm not in school to compete with other students, I'm there to learn.