Bah
Scribbled down on March 7th, 2008 by she
Posted in Learning & Education
Nothing seems to be going right today. Both profs are late getting my grades back in my classes and I’m suffering from crappy discussion answer grades lately. Could be worse. Could be crappy grades on papers. I’m sure both profs would argue that all would be well with the world if I just worked harder. Problem is, I’m not sure it’s a case of working harder as opposed to a case of not towing the party line when it comes to making or responding to arguments. I just can’t seem to stay in the box they’re trying to put us all in.
As a result today I’m full of questions.
Why am I the only one stupid curious enough to ask questions and demand we look at all sides? Why do I do this class after class? Would it be easier to just fall in step? Would my interest and motivation to complete slide even lower if I fell in line? How badly will B’s impact applications to grad school? Why can’t I go back to learning and acquiring knowledge the way I have in the past? When did education stop being about learning and become all about credentialization and fitting into a little slot?
It’s hard to stay motivated today. Guess I need to work on that…
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March 7th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
I SO understand your discussion class issues. I had a class about German Romantic Poetry from the Middle Ages and when my ideas about the poems didn’t match up with the TA’s millitant feminist views, she stopped calling on me completely and gave me bad grades on assignments. I would sit the whole class period with my hand up and never be called on. There was no motivation to go to that class.
March 8th, 2008 at 10:17 am
I can relate to that as well, although not so much in the University setting as I was immersed in sciences, but in some of the options, that was the case. I do relate largely as a home school parent, going against the grain of civilization. There is so much in the education system just like that and a need to meet the mark despite the children not actually learning anything. I have heard that about post secondary and profs pushing their own agenda and political views. In fact, I was listening to the radio a couple weeks ago, and there was a lady on there who wrote a book on that very thing. She had an article in the Globe and Mail about that time as well and a web site I was going to look up when I got home and I am so upset with myself that I didn’t do that and just made a mental note, because at my age, those little sticky mental notes get lost in the fray. Anyway, I just put in a weird comment instead of a weird email 😉 (I laughed at the comment you put on Joy’s post).