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> I feel cheated by my school years, because I was led to believe that regurgitation of facts is very important. Which school is that? I guess that's probably
by Delk 3y ago
> I feel cheated by my school years, because I was led to believe that regurgitation of facts is very important.
Which school is that?
I guess that's probably true of primary or middle / lower secondary school, but I don't feel like regurgitation of facts was particularly endorsed in my experience at upper secondary level, let alone at university level.
There might of course be quite a bit of variation between countries, schools and even individual teachers in this.
- vkou 3y ago> but I don't feel like regurgitation of facts was particularly endorsed in my experience at upper secondary level, In my high school experience, most classes could be aced through rote regurgitation of facts. Math class required another step - identification of which category of problem you have, and rote application of one of a few pre-calc/calc algorithms.
- patrickdavey 3y agoDamn right! I got awesome grades, no idea how anything worked(s) though! There were definitely people in my uni course who got worse grades, but who had a better understanding of the material.
- sitharus 3y agoThat was my experience as well, and totally ruined my first year at university. The lecturers expected I'd been taught application and derivation of proofs, but in reality I'd only been taught the proofs required to pass the high school exams.
- csours 3y ago> I guess that's probably true of primary or middle / lower secondary school, but I don't feel like regurgitation of facts was particularly endorsed in my experience at upper secondary level, let alone at university level. The problem is that by the time someone gets to graduate level courses, their mode of thinking has been set.