It’s so annoying how you try and properly learn and understand a book or a multi-page assignment and you don’t even have the time to do that. School doesn’t allow you to be comfortable and enthusiastic about life or learning, cuz ur on a constant time crunch and ur so stressed and miserable all the time…. it’s so horrifying it should be a crime.

as a teacher, this what "learning goal" called (altho I think it's too exaggerated) and it's indeed really difficult to achieve the goals with the time available for the goals. also, every student has their own time to really understand and this is what I think the challenge. I want my students have some motivation to learn by themselves. and I think, motivating them, sparks the curiousity, and the process/method of understanding the materials are the things I should put carefully into the lesson plan. still a challenge tho, plus with class management, everything is still difficult but I'm trying my best.

Yeah I fully agree. As a university student (pre-law student) I’m currently taking a government and history class and my prof makes us get through so much material in a short amount of time and doing exams and quizzes right afterwards, and I was upset because there is no time for me to fully process the material and ideas, and reaching valuable conclusions. There’s no time for ideas to speak in your mind, there’s only barely enough time to get through the texts and regurgitate the information on tests.

I've always wanted to go into academia/research for work but the more I learn about it the more yikes it seems. Guess I'll become a data analyst

Personally as a second year uni student, I have had several professors or lecturers who are good at teaching in a method that makes students remember and understand the information effortlessly (not just regurgitating, but truly understanding the logic) and so naturally, from that, comes good scores. Good scores from students who actually understand the information are a good reflection of the person who taught them that information. I understand that your job is difficult, but there are ways of achieving both high grades AND actually “getting” the material. It seems to me that it doesn’t have to be only one or the other (good scores OR actually learning information)

@@chrono4998 Same. I wanted to go into aduld education, maybe in philosphy but at this point i don't think i will

I agree. As someone who studied mathematics in college, I think there's a misunderstanding in how people view STEM because they often don't consider the more theoretical areas. I feel the problem lies more in the fact that we are encouraged to not delve as deeply into a concept due to the way the education system is set up. It's difficult to do so when you are studying just to pass an exam (which college necessitates), versus having the time to actually explore.

Hey man, I'm starting physics in a couple months and what he said about not going through the steps in STEM kinda scared me shitless cause i thought that was what physics was all about. Thank you for saying this.

@@VanessainSTEM as a college student, I can totally relate to this TvT

In the STEM fields, there’s a common problem, often hits in grad school, where someone who loved learning things and was good at passing tests discovers they don’t enjoy the uncertainty of research. Learning what other people have already figured out is a different skill set from discovering new knowledge. In research, you don’t get the emotional validation of knowing you’ve gotten the right answer. And if your experiment isn’t going well, you may not get any clear answer at all. Some people drop out of grad school because it’s not until that point that they found out that they don’t enjoy research.

Love how you put it: “the original spirit of discovery”.

Dattebayo?

@@SlugSage believe it

Maybe we are going into survival mode? The same as in high school : remeber and pass exam. And we thought uni would be different, but it isn't and we go back to it

Perhaps the reason that the reductionism and utilitarianism of modern education causes students to lose the motivation to learn is because, naturally, the ingestion and regurgitation of simplified concepts and received ideas isn't satisfying or fulfilling to the human mind. We are curious beings; thinking through interesting ideas and arriving at conclusions and insights of our own is what makes us human, and therefore what makes us feel the most content and fulfilled. We live in a society, however, in which these abilities are less and less prized, and are not being nurtured by our education systems, which, in my opinion should hold their development as their primary goal. The mentality is always to get to a solution as rapidly as possible, to do things in the simplest manner. What we are coming to observe now is this approach to thought and to life is not conducive to people's wellbeing, as is reflected both through students losing the motivation to learn and through the explosion of mental health issues in recent years. Yes, we become used to never thinking critically and being swept along with the rushing tide of society, but we are unhappy with this, as it is not a part of our nature. I believe that systemic change both in education and in society at large is required, quite simply, in order for us as humans to lead healthy and happy lives.

Just you i guess

Gustave Flaubert

yupe it is

Political Science is a part of the Social Sciences not Humanities 😊

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