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I sometimes was one of the students who didn't do the reading. Almost always one or more of the following was true: 1. The reading wasn't immediately relevant t
by pirocks 6y ago
I sometimes was one of the students who didn't do the reading. Almost always one or more of the following was true:
1. The reading wasn't immediately relevant to getting a decent grade in the class.
2. The class was obscenely boring and in no way relevant to my future life.
3. The whole class didn't do it either so we where going to repeat the whole thing in class anyway.
- dorchadas 6y ago> 2. The class was obscenely boring and in no way relevant to my future life. This is the attitude that I think is the problem. It comes down to what we think the purpose of education should be, and that's where there's a fundamental disconnect. For what it's worth, I see the point, but I think the purpose of education should be producing a student with basic understanding of a variety of subjects, not just teaching what is relevant to their future life.