I Am a Believer In Education

i love learning and progressing but school has always felt restrictive. some things are “always beyond the scope of this class” (which i understand cause these are intro classes but still) and yet the test questions are incredibly nuanced and difficult. at some point it’s not what u know but what u think the teacher wants u to know and you have to basically get inside their head to figure out what answer i have. and then that test grade determines ur worth and intelligence for that material when exams are hardly indicative of what u know and more like how quickly can u fool the system and adapt. it makes me lose faith in learning when everything is just about the grades in the end and not ur total knowledge. teachers should want you to pass and do well but it’s never like that.

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Elevatorpitches · F

There's more they will NOT ever say to you

about the plitics of success itself.

I feel for you.

canusernamebemyusername · M

Yeah. I noticed that much more in regular school. College was much better. But even then I had one professor that you had to realize what they were thinking. Turns out he wanted you to read the book for the course. But he never actually specified that since most of the professors only used the course books as supplements.

newdawnnewday · 22-25, F

@canusernamebemyusername oof i HATE when professors do that. a lot of my intro classes have been “weed out” courses and it makes me sick

canusernamebemyusername · M

@newdawnnewday Thankfully my college wasn't like that. But public school Def was. I was switched around a lot too as a child so I got education from multiple sources.

texasdaddydom · 51-55, M

instead of passing on knowledge schools seem to have become regurgitating whatever the teacher wants to jump through hoops to get degrees with the exception of math, engineering, and the hard sciences. at least from what I hear haven't been to class in years lol.

Elevatorpitches · F

@texasdaddydom Formal education is a big disgraceful IQ test. The workplace is a HARDER one.

Makes me ashamed to be a human being.

BiasForAction · M

Grading is often subjective and that is unfortunate. But over the long-term (many years), a students' grades relative to their classmates is a good indicator of academic achievement. Much better than a score on a standardized test.

newdawnnewday · 22-25, F

@BiasForAction anything is better than standardized testing haha i don’t necessarily believe that even long term it shows anything but how well you can memorize a crap load of info and then bs the rest. i’ve seen a lot of people undeserving of their grades and people who deserve more. we need a revamped system already.

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