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>probably researching in that area
I don't
know where you go/went to university, but this is why 90% of the
professors I had were so bad. Research scientists don't make very good
teachers for two reasons.
First, they see teaching as that annoying
shit they have to put up with if they want to be able to stay in the
university and use its facilities. Most of the teachers in the
university I went to couldn't be bothered to even pretend to care
whether the students were learning anything or not, and would respond to
questions in class with open hostility, bitching that if we had been
paying attention, we'd know all this. In fact, the ones like that all
seemed to buy into the theory that if the students weren't learning
anything in his lectures, that was their problem, and they had the
textbook. God forbid a teacher does their job.
Second, they tend to
teach as though they were presenting their research to fellow research
scientists, not teaching students in undergrad level classes. I had a
lot of teachers who assumed students knew things that they honestly
shouldn't have assumed the students knew, and when some of the students
complained about that, it was always "Listen in class and you'd know
this" or "Well, you obviously haven't been reading your textbook, then."
I
found this to be true mostly of the math and science teachers,
particularly the math teachers. |
