Archived Does education suck, in part, because of all this "diversity" on campues? (AskVoat)
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Archived Does education suck, in part, because of all this "diversity" on campues? (AskVoat)
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[–] SOULESS 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Computer Science major here.
I cannot understand two of my professors (one is a lab instructor) in the slightest. One is this little Asian woman who has a very thick accent and whispers into the chalkboard each class. It's supposed to be an object orientated programming class, but she's done NOTHING but go over diagrams. Class diagrams. Sequence diagrams. Diagram this. Diagram that. I've seen code TWO TIMES in the class. That's it. So luckily, it's not detrimental that I can't hear a damn word she's said all semester.
The lab instructor is an Indian grad student who I cannot understand in the slightest. He has a thick accent and there is a language barrier so trying to get help or an explanation is impossible. All the students hate the labs. They're pointless and we don't learn anything. They're incredibly frustrating. Getting help from the person hired to help us just isn't an option. We spend the lab texting each other and trying to work out what the fuck we're meant to be doing instead.
[–] Anson [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
That really makes me sad.
make sure to write that shit on their evaluations though. one thing i foudn that professors do is act nice right before giving evaluations and kids totally bail on writing down their complaints. I only did that twice (fuck me, i fell for the niceness trick)
by doing this you're sending a little bomb to the innermost areas of their evil lairs
[–] SOULESS ago
Evaluations are never read unless they are looking for a reason to fire the professor (which normally, they aren't).
I was friends with the head of my department back when I was still in community college. He told me they reviews are worthless... Which is another problem. OLD PROFESSORS WHO DO NOT KEEP UP TO DATE WITH TECHNOLOGY DRIVE ME FUCKING MAD. THERE COMES A POINT WHEN THEY NEED TO BE FIRED.
Last semester I had this ancient piece of shit who didn't even know slip screen is a thing now. Once a professor has tenure they're almost impossible to get rid of.
[–] JamesMatthewsBand ago
We're going to find out that the information era teachers like khanacademy.com and codeacademy.com are going to produce not only better instructors for students, it's going to completely revolutionize the economy as well.
It is not affordable to hope for good teachers especially since we're learning that college students, throughout their time, only get 2 - 3 good teachers. There's also no way to fire the bad teachers.
It's way more productive to spend that time and money creating a digital interactive teacher that uses the best teaching techniques there are. Then of course you can give that teacher to both kids and adults, save a ton of money and not have to worry about the bullshit teachers are teaching your kids, because adults will use the same digital teacher as well.
Best part is students can learn at their own pace, geniuses will be able to learn very quickly. The retards will be able to take their time without hampering the other students and the teacher.