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The background is that US secondary education is lousy. THere's some background in this essay from a Russian mathematician teaching at a regional institution in
by HarryHirsch 6y ago
The background is that US secondary education is lousy. THere's some background in this essay from a Russian mathematician teaching at a regional institution in Texas: http://michel.delord.free.fr/toom_w.pdf http://michel.delord.free.fr/toom_w.pdf
Students aren't going up to college to become physicians, they are there to learn basic literacy skills to become employable. The failure rate for nursing school aspirants in introductory chemistry at my institution in Alabama is 70 %. It is that bad.
- 2Gkashmiri 6y agohttps://i.redd.it/djb581wsmle61.jpg https://i.redd.it/djb581wsmle61.jpg this was shared on india subreddit yesterday. i failed to mention this in the above post, right after you pass your "matriculation" you are supposed to decide your subjects, "medical", "non medical", "commerce" and "arts" medical is medicine. non medical is engineering commerce is just that, arts is humanities. just 4 groups of subjects and a students is expected to study just that "section" but a couple of years later finds out he/she was unable to get a "seat" so "college" it is. there graduating from there, just pillar to post for job or if their parents have cash, they are sent for further studies in foreign countries. >they are there to learn basic literacy skills to become employable. i employ commerce graduates in my office. the level of grasp they have on the subjects they are supposed to have studied in 3 years of their course is not enough to get them an intern level job. either the colleges are doing a crap job of teaching them or there is something wrong with what is being taught