In praise of errors: ChatGPT is scrambling campus values

Published May 30, 2025 4:45am ET



Making the rounds in April was a higher-ed post for our time: “The honest B or C student, submitting essays filled with awkward constructions, malapropisms, [and] earnest, if failed or surface-y arguments, [is] a surprise hero of the present age.” 

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