"My argument is that sorting is not what schools were invented for"
Hmmm, are you sure about that?
Being a student and learning are not the same thing. To be successful in school, you have to excel at the former.
Hmmm, are you sure about that?
Being a student and learning are not the same thing. To be successful in school, you have to excel at the former.
The problem with post-scholastic (and I would argue even scholastic) thought is that we've mixed up the two roles. Grading (as we know it now) is a relatively new invention... probably invented around the late 18th century at Cambridge.
And yet these non-sorting educational institutions still produced Newton, Galileo, Augustine, and so many others.