![]() I just don’t like the idea of giving the professors the power that they have in whether you end up wasting your money or not. But, hey, you need that degree to go anywhere, and taking a wide range of classes is vitally important for developing your understanding of the world. College would have been a lot more valuable if I had more say in what I was learning. I learned a lot from college, and I learned a lot from my professors, but it definitely wasn’t necessarily what they hoped that I would learn. ![]() It felt patriarchal and condescending and I could NOT wait to graduate. I went to college to learn what I needed to learn, and approached grades as a necessary evil that you did what you needed to do in order to get the grade thing over with. So many of the tests that my professors wrote up missed the mark of relevancy by a mile. We get people to pay a lot of money, and then basically dictate to them how they get to use the item that they bought. I think the business plan of colleges and universities is kind of bizarre. ![]() If I can pass your class while jerking off to bikini pictures on facebook (unless you add obnoxious pop quizzes/mandatory attendance/whatever), then maybe it’s not me that’s the problem, but your class. When professors (far moreso than teachers) add in pop quizzes and attendance as a “Gotcha!”, then they’re addressing symptoms instead of underlying problems. ![]() Her response was to make attendance mandatory with sign in sheets. My philosophy professor in university was so bad 1/3 – 2/3 of her 200 students would just skip instead of showing up. I say this as a former student who would screw off, because the classes were often pointless, and also as a current teacher (and not just some pathetic overseas ESL teacher who doesn’t care, and just took the job because that’s all they could get). ![]() If your class isn’t engaging, maybe you should check first to see if you’re doing anything wrong. College students are adults, they should have the choice how they spend their class time. ![]()
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