Friday, September 25, 2020

"The Lesson to Unlearn"

 


The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn't something you learned in any specific class. It was learning to get good grades.

When I was in college, a particularly earnest philosophy grad student once told me that he never cared what grade he got in a class, only what he learned in it. This stuck in my mind because it was the only time I ever heard anyone say such a thing.

Read the rest of Paul Graham's essay here.

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