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From the Ted Talk by Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course

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So Dan demonstrates the many self-learners who take this course off the Web, on their own traction, on their own __________, and it's quite amazing because these people cannot care less about grades. They are doing it because of one motivation only. They have a tremendous _______ to learn.

And with that in mind, I'd like to say a few words about traditional college _______. I'm sick of it. We are obsessed with grades because we are obsessed with data, and yet grading takes away all the fun from failing, and a huge part of education is about failing. Courage, according to Churchill, is the ability to go from one defeat to another without ______ enthusiasm. (Laughter) And [Joyce] said that ________ are the portals of discovery. And yet we don't tolerate mistakes, and we worship ______. So we collect your B pluses and your A minuses and we aggregate them into a ______ like 3.4, which is stamped on your forehead and sums up who you are. Well, in my _______, we went too far with this nonsense, and grading became _________.

Solution


  1. grades
  2. degrading
  3. grading
  4. passion
  5. initiative
  6. mistakes
  7. number
  8. losing
  9. opinion

Original Text


So Dan demonstrates the many self-learners who take this course off the Web, on their own traction, on their own initiative, and it's quite amazing because these people cannot care less about grades. They are doing it because of one motivation only. They have a tremendous passion to learn.

And with that in mind, I'd like to say a few words about traditional college grading. I'm sick of it. We are obsessed with grades because we are obsessed with data, and yet grading takes away all the fun from failing, and a huge part of education is about failing. Courage, according to Churchill, is the ability to go from one defeat to another without losing enthusiasm. (Laughter) And [Joyce] said that mistakes are the portals of discovery. And yet we don't tolerate mistakes, and we worship grades. So we collect your B pluses and your A minuses and we aggregate them into a number like 3.4, which is stamped on your forehead and sums up who you are. Well, in my opinion, we went too far with this nonsense, and grading became degrading.

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