Dear Student: I Don't Lie Awake At Night Thinking of Ways to Ruin Your Life →

Art Carden, on Forbes:

First, I do not “take off” points. You earn them. The difference is not merely rhetorical, nor is it trivial. In other words, you start with zero points and earn your way to a grade.

Great article. Anybody who’s a professor should share some version of this with their students. It would have helped me understand earlier.