In “I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a cop” Adam Mastroianni makes the case that teaching someone is not the same as evaluating someone. The two are often in fact at odds with each other.

He suggests separating the two. Some people become professional teachers, others become professional evaluators. They are after all very different jobs even if we usually try to wedge the latter into the former right now, despite the (over)importance of grades et al. in today’s society.

Doing evaluation on its own would have a few major benefits. First, it would force us to take evaluation seriously.

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Second, we’d see how hard evaluation is, and maybe we’d do it better.

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And finally, if we made evaluation its own thing, we’d see how nasty it is, and maybe we’d do less of it.