Alfie Kohn on Nostr: “Essay” comes from the French word meaning “to try.” But that spirit of ...
“Essay” comes from the French word meaning “to try.” But that spirit of tentativeness is crushed when essays are graded and the point isn't to explore but to snag an A.
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