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%GRADE ADDICTION 780424
Grade addiction is a disease promoted by traditional
institutional education. Victims of the disease become
dependent upon institutional formal evaluations which can
be summarized by a single symbol selected from a very
limited list; e.g., from the list: "A", "B", "C", "D",
"F". Students are trained to value the receipt of symbols
early in the list, and to fear receipt of symbols late in
the list. The students who most often succeed in
"earning" symbols early in the list tend to become most
addicted to the grade disease. Their lives come to
revolve around the rituals required to buy the desired
symbols---to the exclusion of intimate open personal
relationships with friends and members of their family.
Grade addiction tends to occasion the development of
barriers to open and honest dialogue between addicts and
non-addicts.
Educational institutions promote grade addiction of
students up to a prescribed age associated with a ritual
called "graduation". The graduation ritual corresponds to
the drug-culture's ritual called "cold-turkey", in which
the drug addict is suddenly deprived of the object of
addiction. Following the graduation ritual students find
themselves in contexts which do not offer them familiar
letter symbols of encouragement. The experience can be
the source of great confusion and bafflement.
Many grade addicts avoid the withdrawal symptoms
which follow a graduation by entering another educational
institution which will supply them with the much desired
symbols. Such educational institutions are successful
through grade-pushing. They promote the desire for the
high quality grades that may be acquired only through
exclusive behavior which makes acquiring high quality
grades the top priority. The most addicted students are
encouraged to push the desire for high quality grades by
seducing other students into the addiction---and so
providing more business to the grade-pushers.
Genuine liberal education would liberate students
from grade-addiction and from the manipulations of grade
pushers---encouraging them to become free in balanced and
varied life-styles appropriate to their unique
potentialities.
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