Impressions of school.

[gekko]

Eh, coming from an industry where you're given a lot of responsibility at a young age and failure is not tolerated and going back to a school filled with every stereotypical gamer you never believed existed, I have changed my perspective on instructors allowing the students to skate by. As I've watched students with worse work-ethic than I thought possible slip on by, I decided it's not the place for an academic institution to teach you work-ethic, or responsibility. The school exists to teach you the knowledge needed to get a job in that field, not the other traits. If you need someone to hold your hand, force you to do your homework before dinner, and ground you from video games when you have a test coming up, go back and talk to your parents. You can embrace your education or perform the minimum and squeeze by. As a new adult, it's their first major decision, and they get to live with their choice.

Slight change of topic, my classes absolutely rock this semester... except Physics, I hate Physics, in part because I hate Calculus. Point in, every other class I have this semester is awesome... even my two math classes. So, I'm quite happy about it. Anyway, I need to get going. I have class... Physics

[manasecret]

Originally Posted by gekko

Eh, coming from an industry where you're given a lot of responsibility at a young age and failure is not tolerated and going back to a school filled with every stereotypical gamer you never believed existed, I have changed my perspective on instructors allowing the students to skate by. As I've watched students with worse work-ethic than I thought possible slip on by, I decided it's not the place for an academic institution to teach you work-ethic, or responsibility. The school exists to teach you the knowledge needed to get a job in that field, not the other traits. If you need someone to hold your hand, force you to do your homework before dinner, and ground you from video games when you have a test coming up, go back and talk to your parents. You can embrace your education or perform the minimum and squeeze by. As a new adult, it's their first major decision, and they get to live with their choice.

Yeah, I agree with that, the professors shouldn't have to hold your hand through college. You should figure out that, to do well in class, you're going to have to do go to class regularly and do your homework and study for exams. The students that figure it out make it, the ones that don't fail out or just barely eke by.

But I must not have been clear about this professor, because he was no hold-your-hand professor, make sure you're doing your homework professor, or anything like that. When I say he forced us to learn, he did that by ridiculing us so much in class every time you didn't know an answer or gave a wrong answer that your main motivation to learn was so that you didn't get ridiculed by him in front of the whole class over and over. And let me tell you, it is a FANTASTIC motivator. It helps when he's a literal sponge of the material with an answer to any question you have at the tip of his tongue, and an extremely personable guy, great when he wasn't focusing his power of stinging ridicule on you.

And, to me, the reason he was all of those things, was because he came from the industry and didn't spend his whole life as a professor. Not that I'm knocking life-long professors, I just think a lot of mine could have taken a tip or two from this guy.

[Fox 6]

My printing press instructor is by far the best industry based instructor I have. A quirky fellow he is.