The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.


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I improve on misquotation.
CARY GRANT
I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think ...
GRANT SHOW
Sam was slow getting up. To Quinn he looked like an old man standing up after slipping on the ice. B...
MICHAEL GRANT
Yelling doesn't get your point across, it only makes it louder.
GRANT HILL
'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' ...
JOHN GRANT
Now, with Annie gone, I'm looking for a new dog. I have a lot of duck hunting planned, and I can...
BUD GRANT
I had a MRSA infection on my ankle. At the time, I had never heard of MRSA. I didn't really know...
GRANT HILL
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don...
AMY GRANT
Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.
HUGH GRANT
Regardless of the obstacles or hurdles that are ahead of you, regardless of the opponent, regardless...
GRANT HILL
And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quali...
HUGH GRANT
Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its indepe...
RICHARD GRANT
Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a s...
ANNE GRANT
I'm angry because I was so scared for so many years about just being myself.
JOHN GRANT
My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplat...
GRANT ACHATZ
I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.
HUGH GRANT
When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because ...
LINDA GRANT
Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
AMY GRANT
Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if...
BETH GRANT
Did you throw a rock at my brother?” Astrid yelled, fearless in her outrage. She dropped to her kn...
MICHAEL GRANT
Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.
AMY GRANT
When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcas...
LINDA GRANT
The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are dif...
BETH GRANT
The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not h...
JENNIFER GRANT
We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we shi...
CARY GRANT
The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's...
HUGH GRANT