Not a Grade

After reading Technopoly by Neil Postman, an assigned reading for a communication ethics class, at palm beach atlantic university, I stumbled across an interesting idea. This idea is that the grade system, the process of assigning students a letter grade, is ridiculous. Niel postman argues, and I have to agree with him, that one can not rate intelligence on a scale of A-F, not only is this unfair but its not realistic. He argues that it puts a mathematical spin on reality, a technology created by human beings to measure and with it we are measuring success and intelligence. But can we…