I'm not the GP, but treating students as tabula rasa is a big part of the problem. Another is treating students as the average of their cohort. > with good men

I'm not the GP, but treating students as tabula rasa is a big part of the problem. Another is treating students as the average of their cohort. > with good mentors Most people don't get mentors until the latter part of undergraduate, at best. They don't even get people asking pertinent questions as to what they (the students) want to do, or are interested in, and what problems or issues they are having. Asking these questions is not an easy process, as the asker doesn't know about the student in order to ask pertinent questions, and the student often lacks the life knowledge to give the most pertinent answers. But even a bad processes would be preferable to nothing. I know now what guidance I should have sought. But other students aren't me. It's a sad fact that it's pretty much only those who successfully navigated the system who are in a position to give informed advice and mentorship to students today. Our teachers are the successes. Those who failed are, at best, object lessons who we never hear from. Some pedagogues try to research successes versus failures to generate lessons on how to instruct and credential better. And I wish them well.