“My most promising students usually don’t receive an A. They’re too freethinking. Or they’re gritty hustlers who work forty hours a week while taking on a full load of courses. My most promising students are usually in the B to A- range. “My students who get As, on the other hand, are more likely to be the more robotic and less creative ones. Or they have wealthy parents who pay for their schooling and have more time to study,” I said. Yet the A students are most aggressively recruited by businesses and into the top leadership positions. This reinforces a business world that increasingly
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