> And you know what? When the students blame you, maybe they are right. The teacher is supposed to use their experience to help students learn. Shouldn’t you help the actual imperfect humans in front of them, rather than imagining a bunch of perfectly rational Platonic objects?
This is an extremely mean accusation.
As a former student, I've never ever blamed any of my professors for not giving me enough homework. I am sure I passed the final exam classes with much better grades and knowledge than the homework classes (which I usually failed and dropped very early). And if I've not, I've still felt extremely annoyed and mad about the system, and how nonsense and unfair it is.
I can accept a statistics about homework and no homework classes (which the article fails to provide), that the majority of students perform better, or the average is better, or the lower range is better, or anything.
But this kind of arguing is simply worthless (less than worthless).
> And you know what? When the students blame you, maybe they are right. The teacher is supposed to use their experience to help students learn. Shouldn’t you help the actual imperfect humans in front of them, rather than imagining a bunch of perfectly rational Platonic objects?
This is an extremely mean accusation. As a former student, I've never ever blamed any of my professors for not giving me enough homework. I am sure I passed the final exam classes with much better grades and knowledge than the homework classes (which I usually failed and dropped very early). And if I've not, I've still felt extremely annoyed and mad about the system, and how nonsense and unfair it is.
I can accept a statistics about homework and no homework classes (which the article fails to provide), that the majority of students perform better, or the average is better, or the lower range is better, or anything. But this kind of arguing is simply worthless (less than worthless).