Objectivity is a myth. Yet, the myth endures. And it leads to what I have come to call the tyranny of objectivity, which is the harm that we do with the points we have recorded for each student across a number of events. Believing that the points we record in our gradebooks are objective, we then further believe that the sum of these points convey truth—truth about what our students have learned. But this, too, is a myth.
“Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., tied the dignity of sanitation workers to their contribution to the common good. One day our society will come to respect the sanitation workers if it is to survive, for the person who picks up our garbage is in the final analysis as significant as the physician, for if he doesn’t do his job, diseases are rampant. All labor has dignity. 43”
— The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
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