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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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.