Well, I'm definitely glad that I'm going to be taking 2 programming-based CSE classes next quarter. The sticker shock of the grading systems that universities use is something that definitely cannot be worn off, at least for any logical mind. As I've always maintained, the institution of the University is a construct not built to impart knowledge, but simply to segregate society into generic social and financial categories.
While that effect is not immediate, it is the ultimately goal, as evidenced by grading systems that perform tests based on speed and what not, designed to produce resolution for a grading curve. This is society in 2008. We've stopped teaching. All that remains is the process of acquiring arbitrary fragments of material to be replayed bit by bit on a scale indicative of luck and speed.
I've read a lot of articles and commentaries that were social analysis in nature and none of them made sense. Then I read the Unabomber's Industrial Society and Its Future, and it finally struck me as bar none, *the* piece of social analysis that made sense.
"In an insane world, it was the sanest choice."
The time has come to stop pretending that the arbitrarily constructed measuring scales of knowledge are measuring knowledge. The time has come to start doing. That which creates is the benchmark of knowledge.
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