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On Tue, 04 Jan 2000 10:35:28 -0600 Digby Willard
<dwillard@MAIL.CENTRAL.STPAUL.K12.MN.US> writes:
I've wondered for several years what the
point of grades is, and I haven't come up with any answers
that reflect anything good.
But I think there's another point that's missing here: the great
scientists often have lousy academic records.
Darwin
Einstein
Galileo
Schwinger
James Watson,
Newton
It seems to me that if grades and GPA's are supposed to identify
superior students, they do a lousy job.
And that they do quite a bit of
damage in the process of doing that lousy job.
Am I missing something here?
Perhaps you are missing something.
Please check some of the other outstanding scientists. For example:
Stevinus//and many more...//
Huygens
Varignon
Descartes
Leibnitz
d'Alembert
Young
Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where the exceptions, such as Einstein, prove the rule)