But going into a writing class to be graded for the subjective quality of my writing doesn't really make sense, does it? I mean it boils down to whether I get lucky with the grader, whether his subjective evaluation of my work is positive, and it tells me almost nothing. I now know Professor Manning likes my writing. But Professor Sieboldt doesn't. I honestly don't think subjective art should be graded. It has no use to grade it. For example, imagine I want to hire a painter. An objective apraisal of his skill would be useful for that. A for Stroke Quality, B+ for Perspective Drawing. Fair enough. But if I want him to create an artistic work for me, I'd look through his portfolio first. Do I like the images he's done before? Do I like his style of painting? What Professor Manning thinks about his style is absolutely useless to me, and it's even worse if he mixed that grade with his technical prowess, because then all the grades he gave me are completely useless.

But Hackers and Painters right? We do it too, don't we? 5 years of Java experience, 7 years of PHP, and 94 years of Haskell. So 5 years of Java, or 5x1year of Java, or Java as something you do for 2 hours every 2 months? 5 years of Java tells you very little doesn't it? As does A+ for Stylistic Expression.

Were grading that Arts like the Sciences. Judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree and...