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> They operate under a delusion that students are desperately interested in everything In the US, students are the paying customers. The consequence for not le
by fn-mote 1y ago
> They operate under a delusion that students are desperately interested in everything
In the US, students are the paying customers. The consequence for not learning everything is lowered skills available for the job market (engineering) or life (philosophy?).
To me it is preferable that students who do not understand are not rated highly by the university (=do not get top marks), but “forcing” the students to learn statistics? That doesn’t make much sense.
Also, there’s nothing wrong with learning something after uni. Every skill I use in my job was developed post-degree. Really.
- TeMPOraL 1y ago> In the US, students are the paying customers. Only on paper. In many cases - I'd risk betting in vast majority of cases - the actual paying customers are parents. > The consequence for not learning everything is lowered skills available for the job market (engineering) or life (philosophy?). The ability to perceive and comprehend this kind of consequences is something that develops early in adulthood; some people get it in school, but others (again, I'd bet majority) only half-way through university or even later. On paper, you have students who're paying for education. In reality, their parents are paying an expected fee for an expected stage of life of their kids.