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A Summary/Analysis of Steven Vogel “Grades and Money”

In the “Grades and Money” Steven Vogel mainly focus on education as being the objective but not either grades or GPA. He asserts the every individual in the universe of relatively higher education normally pay lip service to the underlying idea that mainly pertain to education. Steven Vogel also asserts that students normally strive to maximize on their returns through learning the minimum necessary in order to attain optional grade. According to him the definition of grades and the corresponding whole grading system is purely based on attaining the requirement of a course syllabus at the expense of gaining knowledge that is offered when learning the underlying required content. Steven Vogel commences off his argument by recapping the period when he was in college in the year 1970’s. He asserts that during their period individuals was not concern with grades, which makes it different from the act of maintaining status quo of college student presently.

Vogel is surprised that the present students are mainly concern with grades. Parents want their children to learn history, philosophy, science, literature, and mathematics in order to be better personalities. Moreover, this would aids in development of talents, attitudes and habit for their future. The goals of education according to the present children are to make the grade by attending classes and doing exams. Steven also assert that relatively higher grade within the course is significant as it increases GPA according to the children. Moreover, the children prefer relatively higher GPA, which is fundamental for getting suitable postgraduate school and get a good job then subsequently make a lot of money. In nutshell, Steven Vogel asserts that everything is seen to be significant for something else according to this litany.

Steven Vogel’s repercussions concern the students in regard to grades and GPA that is seen as reckless. It is certain that the current professors were also concern about their grades and future. Thus, the position of power that they hold currently of playing it down portrays menial inconsequential facet of life. The actual issue did not commence with the students, but society emphasize on earning and corresponding placing of grades. Society stipulated that students ought to possess particular GPA in order to stay within school, receive scholarship, enter into graduate programs and correspondingly get a decent job. This therefore, makes it cumbersome for the most determined student not to focus on the grades since that is the sole means how the entire society judge student progress.

The emphasis on learning possesses purely systematic restructuring of the prevailing educational system where there are solely dual grades namely Pass and Fail and the sole means of passing entail full understanding of the underlying course material. This can be utilized in placing the entire student fraternity in developing leveled ground field mainly with full understanding of the underlying course material that will enable students to move forward.

Steven Vogel concurs that the students normally believe that grades are the sole motivating factor in the process of learning but solely for the money. Learners prefer grades since lofty GPA’s is equivalent to well-paying jobs. Nevertheless, negative impact of grades is that students require best grade with a minimal amount of education. This result to big conflict with Steven Vogel since his main objective is different from those set be students.

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Kennedy, Mary, L, and Hadley, M. Smith. Reading and Writing in the Academic Community. Upper Saddle River, [N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2010. Print.

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A Summary/Analysis of Steven Vogel “Grades and Money”

In the “Grades and Money” Steven Vogel mainly focus on education as being the objective but not either grades or GPA. He asserts the every individual in the universe of relatively higher education normally pay lip service to the underlying idea that mainly pertain to education. Steven Vogel also asserts that students normally strive to maximize on their returns through learning the minimum necessary in order to attain optional grade. According to him the definition of grades and the corresponding whole grading system is purely based on attaining the requirement of a course syllabus at the expense of gaining knowledge that is offered when learning the underlying required content. Steven Vogel commences off his argument by recapping the period when he was in college in the year 1970’s. He asserts that during their period individuals was not concern with grades, which makes it different from the act of maintaining status quo of college student presently.

Vogel is surprised that the present students are mainly concern with grades. Parents want their children to learn history, philosophy, science, literature, and mathematics in order to be better personalities. Moreover, this would aids in development of talents, attitudes and habit for their future. The goals of education according to the present children are to make the grade by attending classes and doing exams. Steven also assert that relatively higher grade within the course is significant as it increases GPA according to the children. Moreover, the children prefer relatively higher GPA, which is fundamental for getting suitable postgraduate school and get a good job then subsequently make a lot of money. In nutshell, Steven Vogel asserts that everything is seen to be significant for something else according to this litany.

Steven Vogel’s repercussions concern the students in regard to grades and GPA that is seen as reckless. It is certain that the current professors were also concern about their grades and future. Thus, the position of power that they hold currently of playing it down portrays menial inconsequential facet of life. The actual issue did not commence with the students, but society emphasize on earning and corresponding placing of grades. Society stipulated that students ought to possess particular GPA in order to stay within school, receive scholarship, enter into graduate programs and correspondingly get a decent job. This therefore, makes it cumbersome for the most determined student not to focus on the grades since that is the sole means how the entire society judge student progress.

The emphasis on learning possesses purely systematic restructuring of the prevailing educational system where there are solely dual grades namely Pass and Fail and the sole means of passing entail full understanding of the underlying course material. This can be utilized in placing the entire student fraternity in developing leveled ground field mainly with full understanding of the underlying course material that will enable students to move forward.

Steven Vogel concurs that the students normally believe that grades are the sole motivating factor in the process of learning but solely for the money. Learners prefer grades since lofty GPA’s is equivalent to well-paying jobs. Nevertheless, negative impact of grades is that students require best grade with a minimal amount of education. This result to big conflict with Steven Vogel since his main objective is different from those set be students.

Work Cited

Kennedy, Mary, L, and Hadley, M. Smith. Reading and Writing in the Academic Community. Upper Saddle River, [N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2010. Print.