College Math Classes Are Often a Waste of Time
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If you walked into a college math class, you might see 100 students, bent over their notebooks, furiously copying down whatever the professor is writing on the board.
And the professor is just copying that from their own notes or from the textbook.
They’re just facing the board the entire time. Maybe turn around to say like, “Hey, you all understand this?
Okay, sounds good.
Keep moving on.” Meanwhile, nobody even knows what the heck is going on enough to even ask a question, to like…?
And the professor mistakes this for everybody knows what’s going on.
And then nobody actually learns anything until the problem set that they do for homework.
I mean, what a waste of class time.
Students are just copying information that they could easily get somewhere else.
They go to class with the hope that all this information will just magically diffuse into their brains.
But that’s, that’s not how learning works.
You learn math by actually solving problems.
I mean, if that’s the situation, then learning-wise, you’d probably be better off just skipping class and using that time to work on your problem set.
This teaser is distilled from the following posts, if you want to dive deeper:
- Most Students Don’t Even Pay Attention During Lectures
- According to Feynman himself, his classes were a failure for 90% of his students.
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