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I bull ted every paper I ever wrote in college but I did read some of the material. Not all of it, I was just ace at finding good source quotes. And when you're really good at writing, it's like selling glasses to a blind man.
No kidding. I'm not against higher education -- I just want to preserve its intergrity and make it a place for real learning. Not indoctrination, not useless memorization of stuff you could care less about.
When I was in college, I thought -- what are half the kids DOING here?? And they get A's?
My master's degree was challenging, but I think my grades in Hebrew, Greek, and Pastoral Leadership were to high.
I bull ted every paper I ever wrote in college but I did read some of the material. Not all of it, I was just ace at finding good source quotes. And when you're really good at writing, it's like selling glasses to a blind man.
I had an older professor in my master's program admit to me that he gives higher grades now than when he first taught. I could not believe he gave me 100's on papers that I wrote. I was like- I never even got a 100 in high school on a paper! He said basically that what used to be an A is a 100 now; that what were B's are now A's, and what were C's are now B's. Basically, he said he did not feel right about giving me the same A he gave to other students so he gave me 100's. When we had to share papers with the class, I was shocked that people in a master's program wrote so poorly.
I thought my grades in Advanced Potsmoking, Binge Drinking 101 and Graduate Level Scoring with Drunk Women were too high as well.
The grade inflation is disgusting. My school's math department would center the grades at the B-level. I liked our engineering dept better though; C was the average and you had to work for the A- or above. I never found college about memorization though, and indoctrination through professors seems like a conservative myth in my experiences. I can't think of one time I had a professor start talking left-wing politics or complain about Bush. Some of the student groups who would harass you on the way to class definitely would throw their politics in your face, but they weren't nearly as bad as the outside activists and the preachers who weren't affiliated with the school.
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