And one I hope we can al agree is pretty cool.
I see this as an example of how a great country comes to being: with founding fathers’ vision and countrymen’s efforts little by little it takes shape. Countries with wild swings like wars and system changes cannot be great. Great country. Great people.
While I applaud this man’s efforts to bring about political change by working within the system on a number of fronts, that doesn’t automatically mean that his paper was that good but unrecognized by the teacher. And this revisionist history of changing the grade years afterwards troubles me (yes, I get that it was a feel-good symbolic action) for what it implies about how we have come to view “facts” and “history.”
An astounding achievement considering how difficult it was to implement such changes by design.
Also, agree with stradmom that the revisionist grade change isn’t setting a good precedent. IMO, it would have been better for the C to stand with the Prof writing an addendum beside it to acknowledge and further underscore the greatness of the achievement.
The US actually came pretty close to the brink a few times such as the armed border disputes between state militias and some rebellions over taxation/soldier back pay during the Articles of Confederation period before the Constitutional convention of 1787 or moreso…the Civil War from 1861-65.
AWESOME! Sounds like an interesting man!
Very cool!
I don’t really think the grade change matters a single bit.
I’m amazed his professor remembered the paper.
Maybe with the grade change he can get into a prestigious grad school now.
Thanks for sharing this story!