Grades- Do they measure intelligence or obedience?

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<p>Actually, I’m pretty sure that every English professor at my school would prefer a well-written essay with an unusual argument to an essay regurgitating a more obvious thesis already mentioned by the professor. In fact, I’d say it’s necessary to have an original idea for the essay to cross into A/A- Land (not an easy plane to reach here).</p>