"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."

Education, Schools

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"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."

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"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive."

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