Posted on 10/03/2022 9:25:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The students are semi-literate.
I find myself at a loss for the generations following me...
So entitled. So all-knowing. So amazingly inexperienced in, well, everything.
So eager to become a well-paid physician and operate on you with knowing, well - anything.
Organic chemistry was the great winnower of premeds. The material is very complex on many fronts. It was supposed to be hard, and it was supposed to weed out those that couldn’t grasp the concepts.
Caving to the lazy layabouts is a no-win situation. Somewhere down the line someone is going to pay: when the patient dies, when the bridge falls down.
What a pathetic state we are in. It won’t be long before doctors routinely kill patients, bridges collapse, planes fall from the sky, power plants explode, and trains run off the rails.
Clearly the only answer to this is MORE wokeism. Intersectional Studies should fix it all up.
Besides the factors above about lack of work and inability to study as well as semi-illiteracy, I found that some students were just too damn stupid to grasp the material. I taught one fellow who was very eager to learn and pass the course (foreign language), but he started failing early in the course. I tutored him twice a week during office hours and found he was unable to understand the most simple concepts no matter how many ways I explained them.
I later taught in a college in which I was provided the IQs of all the students. Not surprisingly their grades tracked fairly close to their IQ scores.
It seemed to me to be more favorable to the memorizers during that time frame.
Interesting that this particular professor went for a problem-solving approach, breaking away from the rote study that I remember.
I never took organic - but all my friends did. I wouldn't have had a hard time in it, but I steered towards the math and engineering type sciences, instead.
Declining literacy and numeracy are widespread. I taught high school science for 7 years before retiring. I was appalled at the amount of cheating, poor basic skills and lack of knowledge of most of the youngsters. They were in a suburban parochial school. The long-time teachers there told me that they saw a huge drop-off in student learning when mobile phones became prevalent among youngsters. Most of them lost focus and discipline around that time. They also read very few books, which require more sustained concentration. Technology has its advantages, but it is also harmful to young people in many ways.
Chrome offered to translate your FR home page.
Pascal - two thumbs up!
Merit being punished-—AGAIN...
Glad I don’t have to hire a single one of these whiners.
“A for effort”....
Kind of says it all right there.
And this is at NYU, home to the Courant Inst of Mathematical Sciences.
SO steeped in PARTICIPATION TROPHIES-—
NO EFFORT—
NO SWEAT EQUITY-—
NO UNDERSTANDING OF BASICS-—
JUST SHOW UP-—————
We are now reaping the reward of such trophies.
my college roommate was “pre-med” because of his parents - he didn’t make it through organic chemistry.
He became more focused, partied less, and took it the next year - and passed.
Just what you want in a doctor. A whinny little snowflake that can’t pass organic chemistry.
Students too lazy.
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