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Ahh Morphism, I see I see. But still if he didn't do 35% of the work and only got a 65% then shouldn't that still be an F? I guess it depends on the school and the professor.
imastud said:why would a prof think higher of a B or C student that came up with a "creative solution" to a problem, over an A student who did it the conventional way? sure they may have more talent, but they can't even meet the requirements of the class.
Because a creative solution may be better than the conventional way?also, why would a prof think higher of a B or C student that came up with a "creative solution" to a problem, over an A student who did it the conventional way? sure they may have more talent, but they can't even meet the requirements of the class.
mathwonk said:Why do i threaten you so much Warren? Or are you just off your anger management medication?
SticksandStones said:Because a creative solution may be better than the conventional way?
Why do we need an assembly line when the conventional method has worked fine for hundreds of years? Why have a printing press when a scribe can copy it fine?
Anybody can replicate the steps already proven to work, it takes talent to discover something on one's own.
chroot said:You don't threaten me. It's just disgusting to see a person who failed out of undergraduate school become a professor. It's even more disgusting for that professor to turn out to be impossibly arrogant, despite his own incredible failure, and to constantly belittle his students for not doing what he himself never could. You're a piece of work. I hope your students know your history, so they can take all your advice with the grain of salt it deserves.
- Warren
imastud said:dude you shouln't judge somebody on something that happened years ago. people can change. you got to have faith!
That doesn't make any sense at all.You don't threaten me. It's just disgusting to see a person who failed out of undergraduate school become a professor.
chroot said:I'm judging him on the attitudes he has towards his students today.
chroot said:It's just disgusting to see a person who failed out of undergraduate school become a professor.
SticksandStones said:People change. They learn, they grow, they develop. Why should someone who failed as an undergrad not be able to make a comeback and become a professor?
He certainly didn't deliver when he was his students' age.morphism said:So by becoming a professor, he hasn't delivered?
chroot said:He certainly didn't deliver when he was his students' age.
- Warren
cyrusabdollahi said:To be clear, I am by no means saying anything contradictory to what Mathwonk is saying. Every summer I go back and review material and learn new material on my own. This is of paramount importance, to be sure.
BUT my difference is that you have to do this in addition to getting good grades. I have never said, (though most people in here are implying I said), that it is ok to get the grades and not know what your doing. I don't care how you learn, what school you go to, or any other particulars. If you go to a school that does not require things from you like HW in order to pass, it stinks. Good schools are not places where you just sit through great lectures and take exams. Good schools give you lots of work to keep you busy in the process. Now, if you want to moan and groan about this because your lazy, well then I simply DONT CARE. Like I said before, I am glad I don't go to your school if that's the case.
^_^physicist said:They frankly don't see a point in trying to force a student to learn the material by forcing them to repeat the same type of problem over an over again.
You sound like you need to have homework assigned or you would never get it.
And then you say that you go over the stuff later to compensate and build up your understanding further.
What you should have happend, should have been that the professor gave you a set of recommended homework problems from the text, or something they made up out of thin air, that they feel really exposes you to the material and forces you to expand your thinking process out of the standard "solve this problem this way, then solve this one this way."
chroot said:It's just disgusting to see a person who failed out of undergraduate school become a professor
cyrusabdollahi said:I don't care how you learn, what school you go to, or any other particulars. If you go to a school that does not require things from you like HW in order to pass, it stinks. Good schools are not places where you just sit through great lectures and take exams.
Good schools give you lots of work to keep you busy in the process.
chroot said:It's just disgusting to see a person who failed out of undergraduate school become a professor.