PW thoughts

I was just thinking, how you know these PW teachers grade your work by Below Expectation, Meeting Expectation and Exceeding Expectation.

And their expectation of us is that to "exceed expectation".

Ironically, the very nature of "exceeding expectation" is to have a goal and not having any plans to actually go past it. Meet it, perhaps but never to go past it. So when you actually go beyond your plans, you exceed your expectations. Hence, you fulfill the condition that is to surpass your own expectations.

It's supposed to be a surprising kinda thing. Unplanned. Unexpected.

And so when they tell us to "exceed expectation", that by itself is their expectation of us. And, there is no way we can exceed their expectation of us because their expectation is for us to exceed their expectation.

Okay, I lost myself there.

But, think about it.