Your average classroom will contain 25% knowledgable, active participants, 65% stenographers, and 10% who don't show up.
The most common questions in the classroom are: "Could you repeat that again?" and "What will/Will this be on the test?
Everything - from grades to attendance requirements - is open to negotiation.
Things you will never hear a student say in an Israeli University: "What? Only English and Hebrew? I want Latin, Ancient Greek, and Russian!", "Sir, I think the grade you gave me was too high", "Only 25 pages? That's only enough for my introduction!"
Skills acquired in an Israeli classroom: knitting kippas, staring in space, and handwritten stenography.
Tests are better than papers when you have to write papers. Papers are better than tests when you have to take tests.
"Liberal Arts" does not exist here. Consequently, many university graduates are educated ignoramuses.
Don't bother sucking up to the teacher - tests are graded blind.
Bad news: Most American universities are not different, even some of the best.
ReplyDeleteAs an attendee at a prestigious ivy league university, I agree with anony. It is indeed unfortunate.
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