Thanks for your comment Sid. However, rejoice! There is hope! We can lead the future of education, and shape it the way we want it! Thanks!

Thanks for your response Brittany! Very nice response here.

I think the conference settings are pretty good, at least for regular schools. However, students and professors a like need to maintain an open-mind, and set aside some biases. Yet, many times, students and teachers don’t have the time to converse about grading in a college setting. Therefore it’s far more practical to aim to have grades… but to let the upcoming generations grow up passionate about what they’re doing. If they go into college knowing their passion, they’ll be good to go, even if they’re still graded.

Thanks for your comment Ken! I think you’re right… It should be called democratizing… rather than a democracy. I think with agency, as Dan Pink referenced, comes intrinsic motivation. Which everyone needs to develop a successful career. However, a passion is the shortest line between interest in something and intrinsic motivation, in my view. I want all the students in the world to have an opportunity to develop their passion!

Thank you for your post!

In someways, I could agree with you on how google is making us stupid, and so is the digital age. Somehow, I see high school students who are struggling with their multiplication tables, because they’re used to using the world wide web, and in fact their high schools (here in Blacksburg) give them tablets to use in schools. Somehow, this calls for students to have the ability to perform certain things, without the web, and random resources. If they learn somethings, and use google in someways, that’s good. A middle ground is always good. Half of what I learned about my research, is from google scholar, after all, yes?

Thank you Cassie for your comment. I completely agree with you. I think that universities definitely need to foster inclusion, and that was the whole point of my blog post. There is a lot of discrimination that occurs, as well as academic bullying that stops people from always being able to report it. Thank you for your comment!

This reminds me of the quote, they wanted to quote in class… It is:

“Richard Feynman, the late Nobel Laureate in physics, was once asked by a Caltech faculty member to explain why spin one-half particles obey Fermi Dirac statistics. Rising to the challenge, he said, “I’ll prepare a freshman lecture on it.” But a few days later he told the faculty member, “You know, I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t reduce it to the freshman level. That means we really don’t understand it.”