This letter is in response to Mr. Law's utterly ridiculous blame-shifting column. First of all, I have met very few students while at Penn State that have a natural propensity to learn. Most of them are here because they want a job. For those students, the grading system is perfect because a job will also judge you by your quantified accomplishments.

Law says "it is the propensity of human nature to learn and satisfy one's own curiosity" and then also says we learn to get graded, not just to learn. Tell me why these people who have a natural propensity to learn are only learning to get good grades. I guarantee that if you truly learn something, the grades will come quite easily. You only have yourself to blame if you memorize, instead of learn, for a test so that you can not recall the facts a few days later.

Law's column does not surprise me because it has become the natural propensity of students, and society for that matter, to place the blame on anything but themselves. I think most students should start taking responsibility for their own laziness and ignorance, rather than place the fault on a test, professor, or "the system."