Grades: An Imperfect, Temporary but Necessary Measure
The most difficult part of teaching at the graduate school is giving a fair grade to each and every member of the entire class. Much anxiety is felt when people forget that grades are an imperfect, temporary, arbitrary but necessary measure of a performance for a specific period of time. PEOPLE are NOT GRADES and vice versa. The grade does not in any way reflect the value or worth of a person or his skill in a particular profession. Unlike a seminar where everything instantly ends after the last session’s exchange of