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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College (nymag.com)
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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't know how you extrapolate "no emphasis on learning" from "large classes". The classes are large because they can afford to be large. They teach introductory courses, and their goal is to even out the baseline before the students go into sophomore courses. Freshmen come from many different education systems - private vs public, local vs out of state/province/country, fresh out of school vs returning to education after working, etc. This is also why these courses can be graded with standardized testing, because they set the standard themselves.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I think it's obvious that students have a higher potential of learning with a teacher that actually has time to have a conversation with them now and then.

    Personally, the fact that stand and deliver lectures is the norm for college classes has never ceased to amaze me. Why even have a professor rather than just read a book at that point? University has become a twisted simulacrum of it's original form and it saddens me to watch it decay even more with time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I believe you're 100% right. I didn't attend many, probably most, of my lectures as they're completely useless for me - I simply don't learn well from listening and frantically taking notes. It was much faster and more effective to read the material and interact with it in some way, usually rewording and condensing it into a study guide. The few classes I did attend either had mandatory attendance, so I just ignored the lecture and did my own thing during that time, or the class was significantly interactive so I actually learned from it.

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