On: Teachers Don’t Like Creative Students

[mahyarm]

In non hard subjects, the 'correct' answer often crosses into opinion.

[lazerwalker → mahyarm]

This is true.

However, it's still not that difficult to grade for "well-done" work in subjective areas.

Whether the thesis of a literary analysis paper is "correct" may be opinion, for example, but it's definitely possible to grade fairly based on a rubric of "did the student defend their thesis in a clear, organized manner, properly using appropriate citations from the text" (after filtering out theses that are completely inane or insane).

[absconditus → mahyarm]

Opinions can be well-supported or completely unfounded.

[ahoyhere → mahyarm]

Also in "hard" subjects, it's a matter of interpretation. Such as, real science. Such as interpreting the results of a finding.

There are very few things in life where there is a true, platonic right answer and everything else is wrong. "For large values of 2."