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> Even as an elementary school student, I didn't understand why two scripts were taught. In my university you had to write so fast to follow the teachers that
by ekianjo 4y ago
> Even as an elementary school student, I didn't understand why two scripts were taught.
In my university you had to write so fast to follow the teachers that if you were not writing using cursive you were probably missing half of the content.
- Spivak 4y agoDid something change between generations? Because HS teachers would mythologize this but it doesn't match at all with my experience. Even ignoring that professors have slide decks and lectures are recorded professors seem to encourage students to only take light notes so you can actually focus and participate in the class.
- _dain_ 4y agoor the university could just .. make recordings of the lectures? why should students be burdened with realtime handwritten audio transcription? if you miss even a single sentence it can fuck up your understanding of the entire rest of the lecture. but with video you can just pause and rewind, speed up and slow down however you want. it's even worse in math / physics / anything that uses a blackboard -- you have to copy down what the prof draws on the board as well as what he says aloud. two simultaneous information channels, bottlenecked by handwriting speed and muscle cramps. students frantically copying down things by hand as professors talk is a ridiculous outdated ritual that ought to be binned.
- snickerer 4y agoYou are so right. When I will be king of the world, I will kick every professor who does this out of the universities immediately. Their didactics are so bad, they should not be allowed to teach.