It stifles learning and creativity, while also teaching students to value grades and test scores over actual knowledge that could be gained from schooling. Learning stops being fun when students are not given the opportunity to apply and enjoy it. Once the passion for knowledge is gone, hope is lost. These flaws are ingrained into American society, and not everyone will see the issues at all. Until they do, nothing will change, and students will continue to base their (his or her) intelligence on a number-based system put into place hundreds of years
It stifles learning and creativity, while also teaching students to value grades and test scores over actual knowledge that could be gained from schooling. Learning stops being fun when students are not given the opportunity to apply and enjoy it. Once the passion for knowledge is gone, hope is lost. These flaws are ingrained into American society, and not everyone will see the issues at all. Until they do, nothing will change, and students will continue to base their (his or her) intelligence on a number-based system put into place hundreds of years