A few days ago
Anonymous

If college professors are supposed to teach you then why are there books and assignments? What are you paying?

A wise man once said “I don’t need to remember anything I can look up.” Similarily, college students do not need to “be taught” anything they can “look up,” as in a book. On the other hand, if a professor was truly “teaching” you then you should be able to learn from his or her lectures alone, without having books or assignments. And I don’t know about you, but most of my professors have taught directly from the book anyway. Long story short, having a book/assignments pretty much defeats the purpose of going to class and/or paying for tuition, because if a professor was truly “teaching” you (which is what you pay tuition for) then you should not need books and/or assignments; you should be able to learn from the professor alone. Otherwise what are you paying tuition for? For a professor to tell you to read a book or do an assignment that you could have done on your own for free without the professor telling you to do it?

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A few days ago
MasterMmmm

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The premise that college professors are suppose to ‘teach’ you is where you fail. The professors are not there to teach, they are there to guide you in the learning of a subject. This is all they can do.

So, they are paid to guide you in the process of your learning. You are right though, you can always look things up. The problem with doing that with everything is that it would take you a week to eat dinner. Think about it. Somewhere you learned to use a knife, fork and spoon. Well, you could just go through life without learning anything and looking up how to use an eating utensil each and every time… or you could learn how to use them and not bother looking it up.

So, what does the first grade ever really teach us? just as all grades in school, it teaches us how to learn. Nothing more and nothing less.

What do your teachers do? Do they actually teach you? No, the guide you through the learning process.

I hope this helps.

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4 years ago
Anonymous
those are people who’ve studied the textile for years and have very practically made it their pastime. There are books because of the fact there are specifics that should be referenced to, and there is too lots innovations that one taking a type ought to learn that doesnt in good shape right into a lecture. the objective of a university lecture is to describe, pull out the finer information, and to at times open up dialogue for information. A professor is paid, and you pay to circulate to type, to make confident tha tyou learn the textile you’re meant to. you circulate to type because of the fact alot of time, professors will practice issues that arent interior the books as properly which would be useful to the concern remember. And in college 9 circumstances out of 10 you’re taking the class considering you’re majoring interior the feild so extra advantageous know-how doesnt harm, and its solid to make certain different critiques from classmates. Homework assignments are commonly designed to concentration your interest on the textile that the professor ought to no longer in good shape into the lecture, cloth it is critical over all, yet it is often consumer-friendly sufficient to appreciate, doesnt want clarification, ect. initiatives are designed so you might delve deeper into the subject remember, learn and layout senarios and end some issues which you wouldnt be waiting to do by ability of merely “listening to the professor” its palms on and you do the examining/artwork. Its all designed so as that on the top of the day, you’re starting to be the completed ability of the guidance device. It additionally makes it so as that the right innovations is taught, and so as that if something is declared and you dont comprehend it quite sufficient and dont have get admission to on your notes or to askt he instructor, you may look it up interior the e book
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