The following came to me in email. I don’t know if this really happened, but it SHOULD be true, since, from what I know about college students, this is exactly what would happen:
An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class. The class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.” All grades would be averaged, and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.
After the first test the grades were averaged, everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset, and the students who studied little were happy. But, as the second test rolled around, the students who had studied little, studied even less, and the ones who had studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too, so they studied little..
The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling all resulted in hard feelings, and no one would study for anyone else. To their great surprise,all failed, and the professor told them that socialism would ultimately fail because the harder to succeed the greater the reward, but when a government takes all the reward away, no one will try or succeed.
