The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that
he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side
of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work
they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
His
procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his
bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound
of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded
on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot—albeit a perfect
one—to get an “A”.
Well, came grading time and a
curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by
the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity”
group was busily churning out piles of work—and learning from their
mistakes—the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and
in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose
theories and a pile of dead clay.
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