The basis of the rewards in the teaching system is always for the winners. In this system, the teachers may lose many activities for the lazy students in the class, which reflects negatively upon the society. The teachers will not get the chance to observe the activities of the lazy students (whom I will refer to as losers) while the attention is primarily focused on the diligent students and those who succeed (the winners).

The idea of the Upside-Down theory is to solve any possible problem resulted in the teaching system. What if the teachers use the opposite way and instead of rewarding the winners with higher grades, prizes, etc., give the losers some recognition? When the teaching system rewards the winners, it implicitly gives hidden punishments to the losers. So, instead of focusing on the rewards among winners in the recent schooling system, why not focus on the punishments among losers? Thus, the hard work is rewarded by going to the next level, or by avoiding being a loser, and vice versa (the lazy student will also work harder to not be recognized as a loser).

As a result, I am expecting that the Upside-Down process will reflect positively upon the activity environment among the students. In this system, the students are expected to work harder not only to win or get higher grades but more importantly to avoid punishment.

In addition, with the Upside-Down theory, grades will give another meaning to the schooling system. For example, the students can choose between two styles. The first style is to give full marks for all students and their job is to hold on to what they have which I give a name of losing style. The other style, where they need to build their marks from nothing to work more to have more, is named winning style. In both styles, there are no specific tasks, but as a student, you are responsible for contributing to the course subject requirements.