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Originally Posted by renormalised
One thing that I've found, over the years, and that's a lot of so called "brilliant" students at school can't handle university. They invariably dropout in the first semester or at the end of their first year. The problem is they're so used to having someone look over their shoulder (i.e. the teacher) that they can't handle having to be responsible for their own education. Many of them have not been taught to research properly, nor have they been given the right tools to handle the responsibility of having to do things by themselves. Some manage to pick this up going through their education, but not all of them that do so are the ones with TER/HSC/OP scores of the highest value attainable. Even so, those that can and do manage university don't find it a cakewalk. All, accept those rare cases where the person has eidetic memory (and I knew one, personally...grrrrr   ). |
Carl a major problem with uni lecturers is that a large number of them couldn,t teach to save their lives. When I went you did not even need a teaching qualification to lecture and I have some stories I could tell you about that. Academically brilliant but could not communicate. Another problem is that most kids will be lazy and do not want to put in the time it takes to be successful. Why spend 4 years at uni working your guts out when you can do a 3 day course at TAFE in real estate and make 10 times the wage of any degree holder. We had some extensions done at our school recently I remember one time I was on duty on the front oval and looked into the car park. The best car belonged to the brickie.
Mark