From an email I received today...whether it is true or not...does not matter the principle is sound.

 

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class.

 

That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

 

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.

 

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.

 

The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

 

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

 

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

 

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

 

The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

 

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because, when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

 

It could not be any simpler than that.

makes sense to me..+1 you gat an A+ on your post..

From an email I received today...whether it is true or not...does not matter the principle is sound.

 

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class.

 

That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

 

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.

 

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.

 

The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

 

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

 

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

 

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

 

The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

 

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because, when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

 

It could not be any simpler than that.

 

My wife loves this idea and wants to do this with her classes !!!

Many of her students are blind faith followers of our embarrasment, oops, I meant President.

 

Wonder if this is true.......

From an email I received today...whether it is true or not...does not matter the principle is sound.

 

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class.

 

That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

 

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.

 

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.

 

The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

 

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

 

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

 

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

 

The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

 

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because, when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

 

It could not be any simpler than that.

 

My wife loves this idea and wants to do this with her classes !!!

Many of her students are blind faith followers of our embarrasment, oops, I meant President.

 

Wonder if this is true.......

 

Teacher's have been doing a form of this for years.. grading to the "curve".. really pissed me off as I was always one of the better students.

I was a Physics and Chemistry double major as an undergrad so curves were never allowed in my classes.

All of our grades were calculated on a points earned over a points possible system.

I would have flipped out if my grades were lowered for any sort of bell curve.

 

I wish my English professors would have done this. I love to read and learn new things but writing those tedious 15 page papers drove me crazy. We scientists are mostly a "straight and to the point bunch".

I'll take a lab practical over a BS paper any day!

I was a Physics and Chemistry double major as an undergrad so curves were never allowed in my classes.

All of our grades were calculated on a points earned over a points possible system.

I would have flipped out if my grades were lowered for any sort of bell curve.

 

I wish my English professors would have done this. I love to read and learn new things but writing those tedious 15 page papers drove me crazy. We scientists are mostly a "straight and to the point bunch".

I'll take a lab practical over a BS paper any day!

 

Most of my teachers/professors kept all the A's and then "bell curved" all the rest of the grades.. (essentially just giving free points to all the others).. so it didn't affect me quite so much.. but was still unfair..

I'll take a lab practical over a BS paper any day!

 

I knew of lab professors who had ridiculous rules regarding margins (1.0" plus or minus NOTHING) etc.

 

I could have been a 4.0 liberal arts major Instead, I'm an engineer.

great post A+++

I'll take a lab practical over a BS paper any day!

 

I knew of lab professors who had ridiculous rules regarding margins (1.0" plus or minus NOTHING) etc.

 

I could have been a 4.0 liberal arts major Instead, I'm an engineer.

 

I always say if you can succeed in real lab science and practical math courses - the humanities are a joke!

 

We are a dying breed my friend - But I promise all of you that my wife and I are trying our hardest to change that!

Great post!!!!!!!

sounds like a prof. I would have liked to have had...................