If you'll permit the ole Captain a little bragging rights as he asks the question;
"Was anybody else on top of this worthless degree thing before me?"
I feel for the guy. Reminds me of trying to teach Economics to some of the country's most degenerate children.
That was a shocking article. It reminded me of my grade five teacher Mrs. Burns. Someone would ask her how to spell a word, and she would spell back the word dictionary.
ReplyDeleteThis Professor seems to be dealing with students, that are at a grade five level.
I also read a recent article regarding university orientations. In the past these were attended by newly enrolled students. Now a days, it is very common for the parents to attend these orientations. They also mentioned it was common for many parents to ask; who will wake up my child in the morning? The answer was to suggest using an alarm clock.
It seems almost all aspects of attaining a university degree, have been changed. But at least the parties are fun.
Proposition1:
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Conclusion:
We are SO screwed.
The only good news is that these morons will not be in competition for my job anytime soon, or anything my children can do, provided I raise them right.
College is just another thing you're supposed to do to get the brass ring. Learning is optional. After nine years in the Navy I screwed off in everything but in major and minor (Math and CS respectively) classes.
ReplyDeleteHell, I'd taught myself more than some of my professors knew already outside of my core fields.
Then again, I can remember the first day of class in the fall semester of my last year all the soft major students making noise as they left class 5 minutes in the first day because all it was for them was "get the syllabus". Meanwhile my real analysis class was just starting the first of 39 complex lectures for the semester.
When I was in college as a Chemistry major, I took an American History class - it was a required class and somehow I ended up with the whole class PO'ed at me.
ReplyDeleteAll I did was read the syllabus, attend class, stay awake, take notes and do the reading assignments, study an hour or two before the exams - oh, and take the exams. I don't think I got an exam back with less than 98% on it and got 100% on nearly all of them.
Sad thing - it was so easy.
It makes me glad my school eliminated women's studies to save money. The school was 2/3 science and business major's. Liberal arts were for electives to boost your GPA and for people who partied too much first year. People partying in second year usually dropped out or transferred.
ReplyDeleteIIRC, Ross Perot wanted to lose useless majors as part of his academic reforms in the early 1980s. Didn't happen.
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