Zero Hero

Darcey speaks:

A nice softening of the ultimate truth. Either you know the facts or you do not and the only way to gauge whether one has absorbed any knowledge is to test it. Simple.

To think otherwise is just to place a bet. You can bet they may know it but you can't bet that they don't as that would also lean towards violating 'official policy'.

This whole pro non-zero nonsense has nothing to do with teaching children but has everything to do with teaching ideology and in addition the process is dysfunctional. If one does not get a mark for work that was assigned then it becomes as if the work was never assigned. It becomes possible that one could artificially inflate grades by only handing in assignments that they are really good at and ignore everything that they are not.

 

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[nomdeblog]

“If you don't allow failure of any kind then nothing is a failure and therefore nothing needs to be corrected. If it becomes conditioned that failure does not exist then there becomes no reason nor opportunity to change.”

In short, without trial and error we can’t adapt and will go the way of the dinosaur which is hopefully what will happen to these liberals soon.

This gets to ideological war between capitalism and the various utopian- isms. Because capitalism is about competition which in turn is about trial and error. We learn from the error, the failure, we don’t do it again hopefully. And from the successes, we copy those rapidly and take it to the next level where trial and error starts all over again.

It’s OK to err, to fail. It’s normal. But utopians can’t handle failure and blame success on greed and unfair advantages.

Darcy is bang on with “This whole pro non-zero nonsense has nothing to do with teaching children but has everything to do with teaching ideology.”