ok, you caught me. I skimmed.
In my once over, I don't think there was anything I neccessarily disgree with. In fact, that whole sense of entitlement thing is kind of funny because I was just reading an article in the Macleans University issue the other day in which it was discussing the decline of students and the watering down of university. With a bunch of quotes from profs, including "sometimes I wish I there was no rule saying I couldn't fail the entire class". I don't think the problem all lies in the realm of the universities though, it falls back to the high schools as well. A lot of stuff covered in high school gets rehashed to the extreme, in not just first year courses, but upper year ones as well. And I get the need to go back, and make sure everyone is up to speed - I do think that is a good thing, I'm not big on the whole, Too bad for you, go learn it yourself - because you don't have control over what you get taught in HS. However, contrary to my expectation, they often don't review and then expand, they just do highschool all over again. And I'm really not paying attention to where I'm going with this, but I don't know about provate institutions, but I know that in the high school aena of private schools - it most certainly does not equal a better education. I have found that although they might have to work a little harder, the educational value is not always equal. However, perhaps the life skills (ethic and the like) learned make up for this. I can't say.
and yeah, I just lost my train of thought.
Oh, I was going to say it defineatly depends on where you are. My degree is rather general, however, the classes specific to my programme have high expectations...and small class sizes, expect participation and the like. And there are other programmes that I know are similar. Perhaps they are the exception to the rule. Part of the problem I guess leads back to sheer size, in the General science programmes and stuff the sheer class size means it is next to impossible to have small discussion based classes, or lots of assignments, and multiple choice tests are favoured.
I have a bunch of points about why they water down courses and all that, but I really should be putting this effort into my paper...
passing your exams puts you on a whole other plane.
Very interesting stuff.
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