That's a bit...uncharitable. They got through college because they were smart, and the professors treated the students like humans. Minkowski was Einstein's

That's a bit...uncharitable. They got through college because they were smart, and the professors treated the students like humans. Minkowski was Einstein's professor. He gave Einstein a very good education--and very bad grades. Metrics are an important part of life--but they are in service of humans. Humans are not in service of metrics. Feeling dehumanized by being reductively evaluated on metrics is a legitimate complaint. It is impossible for education--or indeed, intellectual work of any kind--to happen in an environment where you feel continually threatened.