Comment by NotGMan
9 months ago
Perhaps what this is actually showing is that college is in, in fact, not for everyone.
But modern incentives force everyone to college.
Thus is gets devalued and it means nothing to have a college degree.
9 months ago
Perhaps what this is actually showing is that college is in, in fact, not for everyone.
But modern incentives force everyone to college.
Thus is gets devalued and it means nothing to have a college degree.
Very nice excuse for poor teaching ability.
In high school I was national laureate of Physics Olympiad. Then I went to college with a mindset that I can learn anything. First week's physics lecture taught me that, no, I can't, if the teacher's attempt at teaching is so abysmal. On the final exam at the end of the semester I ended up with barely passing grade, that I had to fight for at additional verbal exam. The same semester I got top grade with informal plus for excellence in the physics exercise classes where we solved physics problems, because the person teaching those was not terrible at his job.
You pay teachers garbage pay and not evaluate them competitively so you are attracting a lot of not so great people to the profession. Then you just give them students they can't control, let alone teach and never monitor if they actually learn anything during classes. So that's what you get in the end. People who haven't been taught anything but still "passed".
Wanna have educated young adults? Do Finland.
Did no students do well in that class? Maybe the problem was you.
Some did well, some did bad. Completely unsuspicious gauss curve you can easily achieve if you are aiming for it when you grade. Nobody's gonna argue because we signed up for computer science and physics is just there to be passed and forgotten.
Of course the problem was me. I needed to understand to remember. Many people don't need that. They can reproduce completely arbitrary piece of text they were "taught". The grade I got from him was the only non top level semester grade I got in my about nine years of learning physics across five different teachers. And it's not that he hated me or something. We barely interacted. He was just terrible at explaining things and I didn't have a book I could just read instead of trying to understand him. Terrible teacher can make all the difference.