This incessant competition for grades between children, deliberately inculcated by adults, is tragic. Done in the name of education, it has nothing to do with a

This incessant competition for grades between children, deliberately inculcated by adults, is tragic. Done in the name of education, it has nothing to do with a love of knowledge. It is part of the schooling tradition: a set of memes surviving purely for its own sake, with a huge amount of suffering and worry generated as byproducts. In a life worth living, success doesn't comes from doing the same old thing a shade more quickly than the next guy. It comes from cooperation and from building a niche in which one can thrive.