In my uni, professors are expected to teach almost 220h/years of in person teaching (correcting doesn’t count, nor preparing), on top of “being a team playing” and doing quite some extra bureaucratic work. Obviously on top of doing their own research. Good teachers (professors that care about teaching quality) look like ghosts by the end of the academic year…
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While I mostly agree with you, the grading on a curve idea comes from two factors On one hand, the idea that knowing some topics very well can absolve you from knowing other topics at a sufficient level. On the other, people making the exercises for the exams are experts and can easily overlook the hidden difficulties of an exercise. So it happens way too often that a professor would think “this exercise is super easy” and miss that it uses concepts from other courses the students are not super familiar yet.
I also wonder: what’s the goal of teaching this? Sure, a cursory lesson is a good idea, but making it a fundamental step seems nonsensical in a world that doesn’t require it at all. It’s like teaching how to sharpen a quill, it’s not needed anymore
Hyperion is a sci-fi version of the Canterbury tales, each chapter the story of one of the characters with an overarching mystery. It’s an absolutely great book that i don’t see recommended enough
Yah, there are both cultural and societal elements to be considered. In US, the socialized safety net is basically nonexistent, while in Norway, Denmark and Germany (countries from other comments), it’s doing very well. Thus both mean that you can achieve different things with different levels of struggle and that “failure” has a very different meaning.
There is also the component of what the parents can offer. If economic support would be of little help, of social change the landscape, if they are able to do it, and so forth. A first gen college student will not get much useful advice from their parents, a second gen could get really useful guidance.
Take also meant more unstable, so there was a component of an engineering challenge.
Scary when a person can decide what you get to see and what you don’t. (Same problems in other places too, just usually less obvious)
You can peel them and put them all in a bowl. So you can gobble them without really noticing that you have gobbled them all.
This does not belong is shit posts. This belongs to “giving me a kick in the stomach” section.
Minorities know they are the first ones in the list. That’s why they are the first ones protesting, but also the ones try to fawn their way out. But after the minorities (pick the best ones to gather consensus), it’s everyone else.
God article, honestly really poor title
I support beets as a substitute. Roasted they are sweeter with almost no acidity, while pickled would hit most of the tomato notes.
All of this sounds good, honestly. I’m cynical and think that loopholes are always present and there is a risk that applying laws that are too strict could push companies to move out (I know this is often also used as a cop-out to not do anything…)