Asmodeus
01-09-2001, 04:18 AM
Ok. It USED to be my opinion that college was meant for youngins to learn; to learn how to learn, to learn that there is a whole hell of alot out there to learn, and how to think for themselves. But, with my varied and unfortunatly vast experience in that realm of idiosynchratic crotchrot called college(institution of higher learning my ass!) I have come to the point or realization that college is not for any of the above mentioned purposes. True or false people: the professor professes their side of whatever topic there is. True. I will exclude mathmatics etc for the obvious reasons. Ok, and when you take a test, about the only way to pass is to regurgitate the garbage back at the professor.
What happened to learning for yourself? Did it just wither and die away? Or did it get beat done with a rusty crowbar and left out in a ditch for the crows to pick at?
That is what college is for people. It's purpose, or what was it's purpose, is for the students to learn. Period. It is NOT for the student to recite what the professor recited back for his professor, etc etc. College was meant for students to read and learn about different things about the world, ideas that have shaped what we see everyday, and how to think for themselves. It was not meant for mental stagnation, which is what it has evolved into by the way.
Now take philosophy for instance: what was the purpose for say, Socrates, to have done all that he did? To teach. He never once told his students what to do, how to think, etc. He asked them questions for them to learn their own way. His method was for the students to come up with the truth on their own, not for the teacher to tell them what is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you Cthulu, for that ruins the purpose of teaching. What is teaching if you are just telling someone how to do something or whatever? Nothing, because they are learning it for themself.
In this effusive ediface of ergonic mortification sometimes called higher education, there is precious little of actual teaching anymore.
We meek and lowly students sit in rather uncomfortable seats(which, by the way, some are meant for sixth graders, and I don't exactly fit into them considering I am a wee bit over 6 feet), listen to the professor's opinion, spin if you will, of a certain topic of banal idiocracy. Pardon me while I foam at the mouth and steam comes out my ears. Indigestion... humanity always does that to me. Who the fuck named them god over student's minds? Who gave them the power to say what and what not can be learned? Excuse me, but I have yet to find anything I "can't" learn, only stuff I don't wish to learn at this time.
Teaching, by definition, means the process of learning by individuals or students of a particular subject. Ok...where is it then? Every damn thing I have learned in all my years of college is what I have taught myself. Just because I know what learning signifies does not mean that knowledge is widely known.
Kids come in to a new place, a college, bright eyed and bushy tailed, eager for new experiences and learning. Have you ever wondered what makes people, upon graduation from college, so jaded when they get out in the REAL world and see what the fuck good their education did them? It is because they didn't learn a damn thing. They might have learned if they mix Balley's Irish Creme and Butterscotch Snapps together you will get a butterynipple, or some such bullshit like that. Some students may have even taken the initiative to learn that when you light a fart, it burns your ass hair. Some of the females may have learned that if they have sex alot they get tagged as a whore. Some of the guys may have learned that if they "get some" from the "whore" then they are "real" men, if only in their minds.
College doesn't teach anymore. I am not sure exactly what it does, but it sure ain't teaching.
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Good shot...shoot him again.
What happened to learning for yourself? Did it just wither and die away? Or did it get beat done with a rusty crowbar and left out in a ditch for the crows to pick at?
That is what college is for people. It's purpose, or what was it's purpose, is for the students to learn. Period. It is NOT for the student to recite what the professor recited back for his professor, etc etc. College was meant for students to read and learn about different things about the world, ideas that have shaped what we see everyday, and how to think for themselves. It was not meant for mental stagnation, which is what it has evolved into by the way.
Now take philosophy for instance: what was the purpose for say, Socrates, to have done all that he did? To teach. He never once told his students what to do, how to think, etc. He asked them questions for them to learn their own way. His method was for the students to come up with the truth on their own, not for the teacher to tell them what is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you Cthulu, for that ruins the purpose of teaching. What is teaching if you are just telling someone how to do something or whatever? Nothing, because they are learning it for themself.
In this effusive ediface of ergonic mortification sometimes called higher education, there is precious little of actual teaching anymore.
We meek and lowly students sit in rather uncomfortable seats(which, by the way, some are meant for sixth graders, and I don't exactly fit into them considering I am a wee bit over 6 feet), listen to the professor's opinion, spin if you will, of a certain topic of banal idiocracy. Pardon me while I foam at the mouth and steam comes out my ears. Indigestion... humanity always does that to me. Who the fuck named them god over student's minds? Who gave them the power to say what and what not can be learned? Excuse me, but I have yet to find anything I "can't" learn, only stuff I don't wish to learn at this time.
Teaching, by definition, means the process of learning by individuals or students of a particular subject. Ok...where is it then? Every damn thing I have learned in all my years of college is what I have taught myself. Just because I know what learning signifies does not mean that knowledge is widely known.
Kids come in to a new place, a college, bright eyed and bushy tailed, eager for new experiences and learning. Have you ever wondered what makes people, upon graduation from college, so jaded when they get out in the REAL world and see what the fuck good their education did them? It is because they didn't learn a damn thing. They might have learned if they mix Balley's Irish Creme and Butterscotch Snapps together you will get a butterynipple, or some such bullshit like that. Some students may have even taken the initiative to learn that when you light a fart, it burns your ass hair. Some of the females may have learned that if they have sex alot they get tagged as a whore. Some of the guys may have learned that if they "get some" from the "whore" then they are "real" men, if only in their minds.
College doesn't teach anymore. I am not sure exactly what it does, but it sure ain't teaching.
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Good shot...shoot him again.