Ezra Stiles bears a healthy dose of responsibility for popularizing a system in which public recognition and classification of performance mattered more than individual learning, student development, or the cultivation of curiosity and inquiry — all of which are ostensibly the primary goals of education. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/02/the-origin-of-grades-in-american-schools/
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Yale.
*cursing intensifies*