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Life is a open book exam. You are free to take any idea from anywhere, spin it around and make use of it.

And really what's the point of getting grade/scores in school, when we can teach kids to collaborate with each other and create great new things.

Not everyone will be good at math, not everyone will have same drive to study physics. But everyone of us might find smth interesting in a project.

We shouldn't be pitting students against each other.

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Sure and the next time you have a surgery the surgeon might be really, really bad at cutting inside you, but passed their exams because the other students helped out a lot.

Honestly, an exam should control the success of learning, nothing more. Passing an exam should always finish a course or topic. Failing an exam, though, should be quite normal and just lead to more repitition.

I'd rather at surgeon be good at surgery than good at history and calculus.

But the current system in the USA will put the history calculus person in the OR.

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