https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf Key quotes from "The Graduates" essay en-us 2017-03-28 03:37:57 UTC 2025-11-08 13:50:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163216606 "People seem to pick up on this earlier and earlier in their lives, and at some point it starts to get in the way of their becoming educated. You can't learn when you're afraid of being wrong." Pg. 176]]> 2017-03-28 17:49:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163216606 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163217017 "College, from which some 1.5 million people will graduate this year is, basically, a sleepover with grades." (pg. 176 Paragraph 2)]]> 2017-03-28 17:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163217017 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163217141 "We want to give graduates confidence to face the world, but we also want to protect the world a little from their confidence. Humility is good. There is not enough of it these days."]]> 2017-03-28 17:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163217141 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163217221 "College should give them the intellectual equivalent of their childhood sleepover experience. We want to give graduates confidence to face the world, but we also want to protect the world a little from their confidence. Humility is good. There is not enough of it these days" Paragraph 6]]> 2017-03-28 17:51:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163217221 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163217273 "The question isn't what the english majors aren't taking; the question is what everyone else isn't taking. "]]> 2017-03-28 17:51:49 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163217273 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163217467 "You can't learn when you're afraid of being wrong."]]> 2017-03-28 17:52:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163217467 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163217739 "Everything you to in a meritocratic society is some kind of test, and there never is a final exam. There is only another test." ]]> 2017-03-28 17:53:32 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163217739 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163217935 American colleges notoriously inflate grades, but they can never inflate them enough, because education in the United States has become hyper competitive and every little difference matters."]]> 2017-03-28 17:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163217935 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163755406 "More than fifty percent of Americans sped time in college, and America spend in college, and American higher education is the most expensive in the world."]]> 2017-03-30 16:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163755406 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163755692 "Everything you do in a meritocratic society is some kind of test, and there is no final exam"]]> 2017-03-30 16:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163755692 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163756018 Demeter]]> 2017-03-30 16:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163756018 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163756094 "We want to give graduates confidence to face the world, but we also want to protect the world a little from their confidence. Humility is good. There is not enough of it these days."]]> 2017-03-30 16:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163756094 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163756108 "College, from which some 1.5 million people will graduate this year, is, basically, a sleepover with grades"]]> 2017-03-30 16:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163756108 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163756610 "but some part of it is about shrinking people, about teaching them that they are not the measure of everything" ]]> 2017-03-30 16:17:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163756610 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163756628 "And the narrower the funnel, the finer applicants grind themselves in order to squeeze through it. "]]> 2017-03-30 16:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163756628 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163756760 "American colleges notoriously inflate grades, but they can never inflate them enough, because education in the United States has become hyper-competitive and every little difference matters."]]> 2017-03-30 16:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163756760 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163757063 "American colleges notoriously inflate grades, but they can never inflate them enough, because education in the United States has become hypercompetitive and every little difference matters."]]> 2017-03-30 16:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163757063 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163757280 "One thing that might be hoped for, though, is that, somewhere along the way, every student had a moment of vertigo."]]> 2017-03-30 16:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163757280 https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163757490 American higher education is the most expensive in the world. The average annual tuition at a four-year private college is more than twenty-two thousand dollars.]]> 2017-03-30 16:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/xiwkmpe2txzf/wish/163757490