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100. The pressure to achieve high grades in school seriously limits the quality of learning. An educational environment without grades would promote more genuine intellectual development.
The author says that the pressure to achieve high grades in school limits the quality of learning and an educational environment without grades would promote more genuine intellectual development. I agree with statement that the pressure to achieve high grades limits the quality of learning but the environment without grades will not promote genuine intellectual development.
In this world of competition, everyone tries to get better position in their respective field no matter what they do is right way or wrong way. In eduacation field, now a days there is a great compitition between students. Everyone tries to get better marks or grades by different ways. Most of the students study hard when exams are very near. The aim is only to pass the exam with high grades, so they even don't bother with the way they study. They study very rapidly just to complete the syllabus with rapid techniques to get memorized. And that way they just remember the subject for small time period until the exams get over and it is not a long time knowledge.
Some students, mostly whose memory is weak, don't even take efforts to study. They just affraid of exams, their parents and teachers and they find the wrong way to overcome all this problem. They try to get exam paper before the exam by giving bribe to related people or they copy in the exam or any wrong way to just pass the exam. So here they really don't bother about study and what are side-effects of their wrong did.
Only few students who are really aware of the competition in the world. Who are hard-worker and having desire to get high ranking, do study properly with better techniques. And the way they study really helps them to keep the knowledge in their memory for long time.
But the educational field without grades would not help those students who don't have desire to study. The student who study only when the exams are near, now they don't even bother about study. Only there will be no effect of this educational system on the students who really wants knowledge, who is eager to get different types of knowledge and who has desire to do something different than other people.So i think there should be some pressure on students for study so that they just go through the subjects.
In sum, the quality of learning depends little on the pressure to achieve high grades because it forces the student to study that subject atleast once. For more genuine intellectual development there is no need to provide the educational system without grades but it totally depends on the quality of student. The student who really understands the importance of the study or knowledge and who has great desire to achieve something in his life, study properly. But we can't to anything about students who study just for sake of their parents or whatever. If there is no pressure of study or high grades then many students willnot care about study at all. So There should be grading system but they can change the way they teach or by providing some planning of study to students for better quality of learning.