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The Professor Who Failed His Entire Class

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class.


That class had insisted that Obama’s Socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.

The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that.

 
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2 thoughts on “The Professor Who Failed His Entire Class”

  1. What a poor example. I almost wonder if somebody made up this little anecdote. If not, it must be true that the professor intended the experiment to fail–in which case, the experiment is subject to confirmation bias, and is invalid.

    I could conduct an experiment in class wherein the students were allowed to take and hoard whatever study materials they could find, then do with them as they pleased until the end of class. I would break up the grading scale according to present socioeconomic stratification within working families in the U.S. Simply put, students would know from the get-go that some of them HAD to fail the class–they just didn’t know which ones. Having created a limited-resource scenario and a competitive, loser-gets-nothing market, we will see how things go. I would estimate that many people who were fully-capable of passing the class would fail, and that some who would likely fail would end up getting an “A,” simply because they hoarded and traded the most valuable resources. This would prove nothing about an individual’s productivity or suitability for the class’s subject matter, but it would say something about his or her proclivity for resource management.

    Now, you tell me: would that be a fair test of capitalism? And yet, I did more to actually simulate the system’s mechanics in MY test than the “professor” in question did in his! Bottom-line: no real socialist believes that everything should be averaged out, regardless of effort. Testing that will always yield failure, except in extremely cooperative social groups. This test was bound to fail from the get-go, not because of what it CLAIMS to simulate, but because of what it ACTUALLY simulates.

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