Thanks Ardeshir.
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> From: owner-discuss-sudbury-model@sudval.org
> [mailto:owner-discuss-sudbury-model@sudval.org] On Behalf Of
> Ardeshir Mehta, N.D.
> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 2:28 PM
> To: discuss-sudbury-model@sudval.org
> Subject: Re: DSM: David Rovner's and Bruce Smith's recent
> posts on the Diploma
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> Hi all,
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> Re. the Diploma and evaluation: Do we not, all of us, evaluate
> *ourselves* pretty much continually? If a diploma were to
> reflect a student's evaluation of *himself* or *herself*,
> surely that would be
> okay: it would merely reflect a natural process going on in
> every- one's psyche all the time.
>
> But of course we may not always evaluate ourselves
> *objectively*. Indeed in most cases we probably don't. So an
> *objective* evalua- tion of ourselves, and written by
> ourselves, but *also* validated by some people whose only aim
> is to *confirm* that our own evalua- tion of ourselves is
> about as objective as such an evaluation is ca- pable of
> being in this imperfect world, might be an answer to the
> "Diploma Question" which would satisfy everyone: those who
> are for as well as those who are against a Diploma in a
> Sudbury school.
>
> Don't you think so?
>
>
>
> Ardeshir <http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir/AllMyFiles.html>.
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> PS: I *myself* am against Diplomas and Degrees, and as I
> said, I proudly sign my name "Ardeshir Mehta, N.D." -- the
> letters "N.D." standing for "No Degrees", even though I
> actually (and unfortu-
> nately) do have one.
>
> But I have come to realise from the recent posts on this
> mailing list that not everyone is against the Diploma, and
> that sometimes even students themselves want one when they
> graduate. So I'd be willing to go along with a "Diploma" of
> the kind I am suggesting above.
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