Bias-free education

[PeoplesElbow]

Which is why I decided to stop giving them money. I was there for the actual learning, not just passing the class. I could CLEP most of those classes on the cheap if all I wanted was a paper saying I's smort.

I loathed math until I took college algebra and statistics, then I couldn't get enough of those little number puzzles and formulas. I loved churning out papers for my English prof (once I dumped the first ahole's class). I was looking forward to my Sociology class until I realized it was a super easy A because the prof didn't use a book, you wrote down everything he said, then took your tests open note (this left more time for him to give his "hate America and white people" speeches). I hated it and didn't learn a thing, but not surprisingly he gets rave reviews on RateMyProfessor.

So, for my purposes, college wasn't for me. I decided to use that time and money for travel instead.

Sociology is the study of "I hate America and white men".

I had one class called Social Problems, I fought with the teacher because he was an outright communist, worshipped Ed Asner and was actually one of Asners little butt buddies at one point. I still got an A in the class because it was just a multiple choice test taken right out of the workbook.

When I had English 2 we had to write papers from each point of view and that was pretty neat. One week I was for pornography, guns, euthanasia, nuclear power and the next week I was against etc.

 

[Larry Gude]

My parents had a similar view, they told me it was so employers knew that you were able to suck it up for 4 or 5 years and you were trainable. I got my degree late in life, just 2 years ago, and I had one teacher that publicly ridiculed me for stating what he said was my opinion. I quietly showed him he was wrong and he acted like a baby criticizing me on the public forum (this was an online class). I only had 3 classes left so I went to my adviser and told him if he did not remove me from class I would transfer my credits and graduate from another school. After reading the transcript of our interactions, his public and mine in a private forum between myself and him, I was transferred to another instructor at no cost to me. I didn't have any problems prior to him and after him so all in all it was an OK experience not counting the late nights and no free time for 4 years.

Yup. The only point to good grades or niche schools is if you are pursuing specific fields. Then, you better be serious and go for the best you can get your hands on. For everyone else, did you pass? No one gives a #### if you finished suma cum laude in political science from Sho'Nuff U. A C- hack from Harvard is still going to get first crack over you.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

Yup. The only point to good grades or niche schools is if you are pursuing specific fields. Then, you better be serious and go for the best you can get your hands on. For everyone else, did you pass? No one gives a #### if you finished suma cum laude in political science from Sho'Nuff U. A C- hack from Harvard is still going to get first crack over you.

There are a lot of places that will not interview students that have lower than a 3.0 GPA and often your college GPA determines starting salary because up until that point they have nothing else to judge you by.

Crap degrees like political science are even worse because they are a dime a dozen you really have to do something to differentiate yourself from the crowd.

 

[GURPS]

Have you never censored yourself at work to avoid a useless confrontation?

The Only religious war I get into is Mac or PC .... for a desktop support tech anything else is inappropriate