1/5 Phenomenal thread here on the noxious effects of competitive grading on education, even on those who appear to benefit the most from such a system.
https://twitter.com/FaiolaLabUCI/status/1397262891481321474
2/5 Difficulty lies in
1. Convincing enough people competitive grading is harmful &
2. Transforming our education system into one that "meets students where they are, helps them build their interests & skills, teaches them they ARE valuable by being."
1. Convincing enough people competitive grading is harmful &
2. Transforming our education system into one that "meets students where they are, helps them build their interests & skills, teaches them they ARE valuable by being."
https://twitter.com/FaiolaLabUCI/status/1397262897147912192
3/5 In Finland, "hustle culture" scorned & competition in academics minimized from the very beginning. How did Finland create such a healthy, non-competitive culture? It's certainly worth looking into.
https://twitter.com/FaiolaLabUCI/status/1397262893058433025
4/5 And of course it's not just education. Zero-sum games & positional goods dominate our economic system, & the greater economic inequality that exists, the more entrenched & vicious such competitive systems become.
https://twitter.com/vladtarko/status/1364475944350662657
5/5 The result has been economic and ecological catastrophe. Any system based on positional goods—educational, economic, or otherwise—is impossible to seriously improve unless its zero-sum nature is fundamentally changed. See @interfluidity interfluidity.com/v2/7263.html 
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