Posted by alexandra_k on May 9, 2015, at 18:17:48
In reply to Re: not doing so well, posted by alexandra_k on May 9, 2015, at 17:58:21
people aren't taught how to learn.
respect... you can call it 'cultural difference' as much as you like - and it is a big f*ck*ng cop out because your own elders would physically abuse you (pull your ear or kick your behind) if you gave them disrespect like that.
people won't turn off their mouths and open their ears. they will yell out to the lecturers to 'speak up' or to turn the magnification up on the overhead displays.
while they sit at the back. while they refuse to take the seats at the front where they can see and hear.
or... (worse) when they are taught that it is a hierarchy thing about the front. that racing forwards and taking the front row is a 'winner' thing to do. then one person gets sent in early and is supposed to save seats (intimidate other people out of sitting in those seats) while the rest of the people may or may not actually even turn up.
when people fidget the lecturer is supposed to respond to them by showing them a youtube video or something like that.
and the evaluations are all about 'yeah, i liked that one, i thought they were cool'.
and so... here's your worthless piece of degree paper... be on your merry way.
or... you could enroll in a degree on, oh, say, 'public health' and we'll make sure we reward what it is that we value. a little elite group of our own who gets in the name of past injustice... who gets to feel at the top of a hierarchy of our own people... in the name of fairness...
i don't know that that is the self-consciousness... the self-awareness... i htink a number really are genuinely well intentioned. but lack of education and perhaps... cognitive development... from years of sh*t food... yeah... probably poisoned water supply in local community... whatever batch of immunisation they decided to feed y'all...
the world is a pretty terrifying place...
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