Nickswitz wrote:Well, today was fun.Lifeguarding was difficult, people being deadweight, are not fun to lift out of the water...
Winning a debate is a bit bumpy. Once you can tell your opponent hasn't the will or ability to carry on with the topic anymore. That's a victory.Nickswitz wrote:I actually am unsure as to what winning or losing one of these debates is... It's kind of an opinion rather than anything else,
This is a sad side effect as I've "spoken" with a number of teachers who attempt to impart their opinions on students rather then allow the students to form their own opinions.so I guess it's whatever the teacher decides,
Yes Hun, I'm training. HahaUzume wrote:Are you training or something? If not, maybe you should put a sign up that says, You must know how to swim before entering.
Seriously, I've been to a lot of pools, and very seldom have I seen a lifeguard in action, besides blowing a whistle to announce adult swim.
He actually doesn't do that, but he usually decides based on a few factors, what he likes is just one of them... But he's actually a good teacher IMODeepcrush wrote:This is a sad side effect as I've "spoken" with a number of teachers who attempt to impart their opinions on students rather then allow the students to form their own opinions.
That's every non-technical class I took in college. Independent thinking is not encouraged at college.Deepcrush wrote:This is a sad side effect as I've "spoken" with a number of teachers who attempt to impart their opinions on students rather then allow the students to form their own opinions.
It is at DCC, or at least in every class I've taken.Tyyr wrote:That's every non-technical class I took in college. Independent thinking is not encouraged at college.Deepcrush wrote:This is a sad side effect as I've "spoken" with a number of teachers who attempt to impart their opinions on students rather then allow the students to form their own opinions.
Ha! I had an ancient lit class at Stevens taught be a full-blown femi-nazi. I actually received a failing assignment grade (an extra one, no assignment involved) for daring to suggest that Achilleus' and Agamemnon's treatement of Briseis in The Iliad wasn't evil, because it should have been judged by the mores of Mycenaean Greece rather than our own.Tyyr wrote:That's every non-technical class I took in college. Independent thinking is not encouraged at college.
Seriously? I - and most others of the proffession that I've encountered - try and encourage people to give alternate suggestions and theories as to why X is so.Tyyr wrote:That's every non-technical class I took in college. Independent thinking is not encouraged at college.Deepcrush wrote:This is a sad side effect as I've "spoken" with a number of teachers who attempt to impart their opinions on students rather then allow the students to form their own opinions.
I knew a teacher like that once (though she wasn't a femi-nazi, she was just sure that anyone else's interpretation of something was invalid). She eventualy wound up getting fired after it transpired she had been unfairly marking students down in state examinations because they offered explainations that were perfectly valid but contrary to her ideas.Mikey wrote:Ha! I had an ancient lit class at Stevens taught be a full-blown femi-nazi. I actually received a failing assignment grade (an extra one, no assignment involved) for daring to suggest that Achilleus' and Agamemnon's treatement of Briseis in The Iliad wasn't evil, because it should have been judged by the mores of Mycenaean Greece rather than our own.Tyyr wrote:That's every non-technical class I took in college. Independent thinking is not encouraged at college.
Yup. "Free Thinking" was only allowed if the end result meshed with the instructor's opinion or was currently politically correct. Any questioning of the underlying assumptions or of their opinions is not tolerated. You either line up your opinions with the current accepted ideology of the institution or you shut the hell up.Sionnach Glic wrote:Seriously? I - and most others of the proffession that I've encountered - try and encourage people to give alternate suggestions and theories as to why X is so.
Sound a lot like my introduction to higher education. I was in a sociology class with a very PC, left-wing professor. One day we were talking about people react to things and she said one of the most idiotic things I've ever heard. "There's no difference between a woman and a man." I of course raised my hand and said that was just wrong. Biologically, psychologically, on just about every level that was just totally wrong. I don't know how many times we clashed that semester but I rarely suppressed my "bullshit!" impulse and was constantly calling her out on those kind of comments. When I had the balls to suggest that human beings were not intrinsically good and that we are in fact selfish hateful border line barbarians on tiny step above savages and animals I was just the belle of the ball. Even though I got an A or B on every single paper and assignment she claimed my attendance was "sub standard," and gave me a D even though people who showed up to class less than me walked away with A's and B's. That they came rushing to her defence every time we clashed was of course totally irrelevant.Mikey wrote:Ha! I had an ancient lit class at Stevens taught be a full-blown femi-nazi. I actually received a failing assignment grade (an extra one, no assignment involved) for daring to suggest that Achilleus' and Agamemnon's treatement of Briseis in The Iliad wasn't evil, because it should have been judged by the mores of Mycenaean Greece rather than our own.
