01-08-2015, 04:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-08-2015, 04:22 PM by Christopher.)
Right. College is about higher education. Common sense (or what my mom would call "street smarts") comes from life's experiences and the real world. Somethings a college class can teach you like how to manage a small business (like in the video posted here), but only you can teach yourself how to make that small business successful base on how much you put into it and are willing to learn from those who have made it or failed at the trade. I'm going back to college, like I originally went to college, to learn. Yes, I want to work on my BA. But, I also want to learn. If I'm taking a course about Sociology, I want to learn Sociology. Not because I'm forced to take it, or because the instructor is this political side or that political side. I find college fun. It's meant to be higher learning and an enjoyable experience where you have plenty of room to pick different classes and subjects unlike high school which is kind of canned to what the state requires you to take and learn and very small on class elective choices.
There's no reason to make college political. Liberal vs Conservatives is not the reason behind it. Take the courses, enjoy the courses and what's being taught, have fun getting your degree, and just go with it. If you don't like the course or teacher drop the course (before the "W" deadline though or you'll have one of those "W" on your transcript.) I dropped my English 1A class fifteen minutes after the lesson because the instructor spent most of the time telling us about the self-published books he wrote, when he went to college while working at a funeral home at nights, his fan club, his travels and how pretty much any mistake we make will fail the paper and after three failed papers you flunk the class and than back to how great of a writer he claimed he was. He was too much into himself they should of just named the class after him. I took the same course the next semester with a female teacher and she was awesome. Stuck to what needed to be taught to us, and how to bring our writing up to even higher standards without getting silly about it. Yeah, you get those types now and again. But outside of that, college is college. If one fails a college is to liberal or conservative then switch and attend another one. It's more easier than it was twenty years ago as some colleges aren't so SAT fanatical as they once were.
As for whether my college instructors were libreal or conservative when I went to CC. That I never knew because I never asked them, and they never mentioned it, and no one cared. They taught and we learn. When you get into Political or Government classes than yes it can become more political based. But when you're taking English Lit, Art History, Math, Psychology, and so forth, all that stuff doesnt matter or play into it.
There's no reason to make college political. Liberal vs Conservatives is not the reason behind it. Take the courses, enjoy the courses and what's being taught, have fun getting your degree, and just go with it. If you don't like the course or teacher drop the course (before the "W" deadline though or you'll have one of those "W" on your transcript.) I dropped my English 1A class fifteen minutes after the lesson because the instructor spent most of the time telling us about the self-published books he wrote, when he went to college while working at a funeral home at nights, his fan club, his travels and how pretty much any mistake we make will fail the paper and after three failed papers you flunk the class and than back to how great of a writer he claimed he was. He was too much into himself they should of just named the class after him. I took the same course the next semester with a female teacher and she was awesome. Stuck to what needed to be taught to us, and how to bring our writing up to even higher standards without getting silly about it. Yeah, you get those types now and again. But outside of that, college is college. If one fails a college is to liberal or conservative then switch and attend another one. It's more easier than it was twenty years ago as some colleges aren't so SAT fanatical as they once were.
As for whether my college instructors were libreal or conservative when I went to CC. That I never knew because I never asked them, and they never mentioned it, and no one cared. They taught and we learn. When you get into Political or Government classes than yes it can become more political based. But when you're taking English Lit, Art History, Math, Psychology, and so forth, all that stuff doesnt matter or play into it.
sanantone Wrote:Really? Like a quarter of your posts are complaints about liberals in higher education and colleges not teaching common sense even though people don't go to college to learn common sense. Common sense is just that -- common. I don't even spend 10% of my time on this forum or any forum complaining about people's ideological beliefs.
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