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cm2187 • yesterday at 8:16 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Where are the successful alternatives?


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epolanski • today at 1:09 AM

Grading is a rather recent endeavor that spread after 1940s, unsurprisingly in the US.

The first experiments are from early 1800s, also in US.

For most of history universities were places you went to study and learn, not get a piece of paper to get better job prospects in the rat race.