Do you approve of "apple‑polishing"? Are you an "apple‑polisher"? According to the letters we have received, it seems that there are a few people with complaints against the students who polish up their teachers. The students who do this are ones who don't deserve good grades because they don't work.

It may sound as though apple‑polishing is great if you can do it, but you are only hurting yourself. Your friends may tell you they think it's great, but they really think you're a fool and that you can't get good grades without a little polishing.

Teachers who can't see through students' little acts must not be very well educated in the psychology of students. I feel that these teachers do not do all they can to discourage apple-polishing. They should give a student a grade based on his work and not how well he can talk. Students

should realize that talking their teacher into giving them a higher grade is not going to help them when it comes time to prove what they have learned. It is far more important to take a low grade and know what your problems are.

Most students who don't see anything wrong with polishing a teacher, or "browning" them as it is sometimes called, feel that if they can get away with it, all the better. When I asked several students of different grade classifications their opinions, rightful A and B students said they wouldn't do it because, for one thing, they can make good grades without "browning" their teachers; and secondly, they know how the other students would feel towards them if they did. The C students were generally of the same opinion. It was the D and F students who seemed to find nothing at all wrong with getting something for nothing.