They are paid to provide an OPPORTUNITY of education.
If you aren't up to the task of learning, it's not their fault.
Too many people make that mistake -- you aren't paying me to make you understand, but to give you the opportunity to grasp the knowledge. Some people won't get it, and some will do very well. The methods I elect to employ to teach you determine where I will work, and the ideology behind 'tear down, build up' is a sound one. I don't teach that way, myself, preferring to use anecodal analogs in cognative schema instantiation, and even THAT method has a 30% washout rate.
Oh, and being 18 doesn't make you an adult. I dare say that almost NONE of the kids at a college are really adults yet. If you wait until people have a well-rounded sense of maturity, they are often too far into their careers to go back to college for the paper that says they can do what they already are doing.
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Date: 2004-08-20 02:01 pm (UTC)Colleges are not paid to provide an education.
They are paid to provide an OPPORTUNITY of education.
If you aren't up to the task of learning, it's not their fault.
Too many people make that mistake -- you aren't paying me to make you understand, but to give you the opportunity to grasp the knowledge. Some people won't get it, and some will do very well. The methods I elect to employ to teach you determine where I will work, and the ideology behind 'tear down, build up' is a sound one. I don't teach that way, myself, preferring to use anecodal analogs in cognative schema instantiation, and even THAT method has a 30% washout rate.
Oh, and being 18 doesn't make you an adult. I dare say that almost NONE of the kids at a college are really adults yet. If you wait until people have a well-rounded sense of maturity, they are often too far into their careers to go back to college for the paper that says they can do what they already are doing.