And WHY exactly do i NEED to know that?
17 May 2010 Leave a Comment
in society problems Tags: annoyed, bad teachers, exams, importance, school
hi, everyone…
i am sure a lot of us in montenegro and maybe the rest of the world have a problem similar to what i am going through at this moment. you see, there’s this class i am taking, and it bores me out of my mind. no, i didn’t choose it, because, guess what, you cannot choose your curriculum in this country. not in high school, not in college. you can only choose what high school or college you wanna go to. for instance, i went to medical high school and now i am attending political science, dept. journalism.
believe it or not, in my two years in this university, we had one practical class where they actually graded our writing. all the other stuff… well, political subjects, of course! it’s okay if we can’t write, as long as we know the definition of culture by a thousand different people. thousand different definitions.
so, i am studying for this test i have tomorrow, very dry matter, very not fun, very… well, boring. every time i try reading it, i wanna go to sleep, and it’s not a bad subject. actually, it could be a LOT better if the professor would take a different approach to it. but no. the class consists in memorizing what a thousand people said about a thousand different things. and, i need to memorize it all. no, not learn. i said it right: memorize.
now, memorizing something will give you no knowledge whatsoever. as my boyfriend told me once, from the book to the head through the pen on the paper, and that is where it will stay. forever.
do you really think this is how things are learned? if you do, you are SO wrong!
and why exactly do i need to know how a thousand people defined culture? i would like it better if they would teach us creative thinking, so we could come up with our own definitions.
