Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Grades(marks)encourage students to learn?
As it sets for,grades play a vital role in judging whether students do well in their academics.Teachers and deans may even regard GPAs as a only way to motivate students to achieve academic goals in case of being fined by disciplines of schools.Although much of educators think so,I still hold the opinion that grades may not encourage students to learn and,in adverse,may harm the enthusiasm of student to learn.
Firstly,an inadequately emphasize on grades may lead to a consequence that students will lose fervour to learn.As it is widely acknowledged in psycology,too much authoritarian enforcement will lead to one's totally psychological inversion.Then we can deduce that when teachers and deans pay most their attention on grades,students will be oppressed to enhance their GPA grades ,which will make them feel purgatorially stress.The more students feel stressed,the less enthusiasm they will feel like studying.This will be a vicious spiral for students to achieve their academic goals,some students will feel weary of studying.
In addition,too much attention pays merely to grades may push students unscrupulously chasing high grades regardless of whether they gain anything beneficial from this process of getting high GPAs.To get grades as high as possible ,students will pay most attentions on "major" courses which value high grade points and neglect "minor" courses value lesser grade points ,although this "minors" still be essential for their majors and careers.What's worse,some students may cheat for their high grades .
Granted grades may not inspire or even harm the enthusiasm of students to learn,we can still say that grades in a certain extent can encourage some students to study.With the competition of getting higher grades,self-esteem students will be assiduous on their study .The fear of getting "F" of their courses will made some mediocre students working hard.In a word ,for some students gradeing is the only way to stimulate them to work hard in campus.
Above all ,we can draw a conclusion that in some degree we still need grading to make students work hard,a mere grading could never inspire or even harm the enthusiasm of dtudents to learn,since no one like living beneath the pressure of fail for their academics.