I don’t believe these stories and think it is only told by lazy privileged fucks that don’t respect or use the resources available to them by the school (teacher, lecture, notes, exercises, books, other).
I had a calc prof in uni that literally just read his slides in a monotone voice. I had already taken a calc course that I could have used at a college so didn’t even need the credit, but wanted to understand better. At the end of the course, my understanding was way down.
I’d say arguing that people are lazy for not using their textbooks and example questions is missing the mark entirely. The complaint is that profs do nothing… you can buy a textbook and practice questions for a lot less than $27,000.
So you took at course in calculus with bad lectures, read and worked through all the pages in the book/notes, did all the exercises but afterwards your understanding of calculus was worse. This is why I don’t believe these stories.
There are plenty of exploitative “schools” out there which make big promises, cost big money, and then do shit like this.
The rub is that they cost less than real university, so that is sometimes people’s only option.
When you live in a society that actively discourages education because they don’t want citizens to realize how bad they’re getting robbed by capitalism, you don’t make it cheap or free to go to school. They want to ensure the only smart ones are already so ingrained into the system (by way of being able to afford the education) that they’d never betray it, or risk upending their comfortable lifestyle.
I don’t believe these stories and think it is only told by lazy privileged fucks that don’t respect or use the resources available to them by the school (teacher, lecture, notes, exercises, books, other).
Did you really never have a terrible prof?
I had a calc prof in uni that literally just read his slides in a monotone voice. I had already taken a calc course that I could have used at a college so didn’t even need the credit, but wanted to understand better. At the end of the course, my understanding was way down.
I’d say arguing that people are lazy for not using their textbooks and example questions is missing the mark entirely. The complaint is that profs do nothing… you can buy a textbook and practice questions for a lot less than $27,000.
So you took at course in calculus with bad lectures, read and worked through all the pages in the book/notes, did all the exercises but afterwards your understanding of calculus was worse. This is why I don’t believe these stories.
I got one better. I had a marketing professor who just told stories about how Norway was different from the US.
I took detailed notes because we couldn’t have laptops out and I had nothing better to do.
Exactly two sentences from all of her lectures applied to the exams. If she didn’t take attendance there would have been no point in going to class.
There are plenty of exploitative “schools” out there which make big promises, cost big money, and then do shit like this.
The rub is that they cost less than real university, so that is sometimes people’s only option.
When you live in a society that actively discourages education because they don’t want citizens to realize how bad they’re getting robbed by capitalism, you don’t make it cheap or free to go to school. They want to ensure the only smart ones are already so ingrained into the system (by way of being able to afford the education) that they’d never betray it, or risk upending their comfortable lifestyle.
You know, like Lords and Ladies