The article “From Degrading to De-grading” written by Alfie Kohn, is a very persuasive and informative text. By reading his article you could tell Kohn is intelligent, gets straight to the point, and supports his claims with convincing evidence. Kohn knows how to get his point through text and attacks every idea from different angles. He was particularly obvious that he was against the letter and number grading system. Kohn mentioned many reasons why the current grading system is inappropriate for the student’s education, such as: grades don’t tell much about a student’s knowledge, grades reduce the drive to learn, and grades reduce the drive to challenge
