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I agree that college should not be the end of learning. However, I wouldn't want to be taught by a professor that says "that employers don’t generally care abou
by seancron 16y ago
I agree that college should not be the end of learning. However, I wouldn't want to be taught by a professor that says "that employers don’t generally care about the content of job applicants’ classes; they’re more interested in whether an applicant graduated, was able to meet deadlines, and work within a bureaucracy."
If they truly believe that, it will reflect in their courses. Instead of trying to teach their subject to the best of their ability, they'll might instead give many deadline oriented assignments that do not help learning of any kind. Instead of being accessible for students to ask questions, they might make it a more difficult process to get in touch with them, rationalizing that "they don't really care about the subject, all they care about is getting a good grade, and graduating so they can get a job in some bureaucratic workplace."
Professors with that attitude can turn students off to a subject that they would have otherwise enjoyed, and make it more difficult to learn.
- robryan 16y agoYeah, in this situation they are forgetting that not everyone in the class is doing it just to essentially check off a box in their degree process. Recently there was an email sent out that was basically like "do data mining, it's big in industry", giving that subject a miss because the lecturer is terrible but also because he's so industry focused. I'm not planning on continuing in academia but I'm certainly not wanting to take classes that are just there to fulfil degree requirements without going deep into the subject and providing interesting and challenging content.