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fullphaser
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« on: September 10, 2008, 12:06:32 AM » |
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Damnit, I am so fed up with this mentality that if I read something I will understand everything about the class. Don't get me wrong the mentality is correct, but it sure as hell is not what I payed for? You know what I mean, I guess this just really boils down to bitching on my part, but the point of the matter is that I hate it when people (namely professors) seem to assume that the reason you are doing poorly is because you didn't read the 100+ dollar book that they shoved down your throat. The problem that I have with this is that it isn't what I payed for.
Take for instance that if I wished to learn, I am very much capable of doing that quite on my own without the help of any institution, but I payed for some man or woman (or it would seem some understudy of a man or woman) so that they could teach me what they know. The problem is that Professors seem to forget that you are in fact a paying customer, that they are some supreme god that is keeping you from spreading the stupid into the work force. The problem with this mentality is that they do this by throwing up useless as fucking road blocks that are utterly pointless. And I say that not as some upstart punk who has never been near a business, but as someone who has at least 5 years working experience, as well as several years of freelance working experience. Which I suppose is why I have always had a problem with written test, (like the ACT, SAT, etc.) they don't represent much past knowledge base and test taking skills.
If I were looking for workers, I would want to see those who have dealt with the real world applications of the business, and were past theory. Unless you are going into the world of the Theoretical and the research lab (have fun begging for government funding) than you are probably never going to deal with a written test. And I suppose it may be a way to measure knowledge base, but all to often it is ranked above the implementation of practical skill (the labs etc.) As if what you know outranks what you are capable of learning.
Perhaps it's because I only intend to start my own business, and don't feel the need to be bogged down with what amounts to cooperate bullshit that I find the ideas so offensive. But I digress, my main point is that teachers should go above and beyond to work with students, to serve as more than simply someone who can go slide by slide in a power point. And for those that say I have been a teacher for 5 years, or I have been teaching for 10, I have something to say to you to. I have been a student my entire life, and even had a hand at teaching once or twice, you no longer have the authority to defend yourself as a good teacher, I'm just as qualified to call your method a piece of shit as anyone else who has had to endure 20 years of learning. (I am well aware the closer estimate is closer to 15). So the point of the matter is: please make it worth the 30,000+ a year that I am dropping on your institution, don't just show me power point after power point and expect me to be impressed, you're going to have to try harder than that to make me think that what I am spending was worth it.
This goes especially so for those schools that are rolling in money yet can take the time to hire real professors. Instead you get this small retarded creature called a TA (teaching assistant) this is the most profound form of bullshit yet. Because the school can't take the time to make the class sizes a bit smaller they just let graduate students teach (graduate students mind you who only have 2-3 years more experience than you). And those same TA's don't give a shit about how well you do, its cheap easy money for grading shit. So you're lab is often taught by these morons who would like to do nothing more than complete their homework.
It's all rather insulting you know?
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