“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.” –Albert Einstein
On the second day of teacher preparation this August, my building held a discussion regarding our use of grades and what we grade and what we don’t. Eventually, the discussion turned to the issue of failure on a test or
