Is university bringing you down?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0982755953/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=c... cf. http://www.youtube.com/user/McGarnicle13

and http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1&video_id=fZqn4azt7A4&next=...

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[McGarnicle13]

Sorry I should've said, I just finished high school and the video was more focused around High School education. I'm not planning to go to college or university as I have a few jobs lined up (all of which I love to do). Plus I wouldn't ever spend money on education, that I am 100% into. Great video 5 stars!

[Professoranton]

That is great. Open source!

[BeMyFirst]

Thank you sir.

[synchronium24]

@frichikendz "And I hope you realize some of your students will approach you in the same sense as me. They want to improve."

I agree with you here, but i think Professor Anton was referring to nitpicking over people who are only concerned about maneuvering around the arbitrary grading criteria rather than learning something of value (your intention).

[frichikendz]

I want to point out about grades.

I strive for A's, so when I do get a B+ or any grade including A- below my working A, I would ask the Professor why I got the grade I got. Not because I am denying that my work as not good. That is it below my expectations, I sincerely want to know what I need to do to improve. I sincerely want a critical opinion and answer so I can prefect my mistakes. And I hope you realize some of your students will approach you in the same sense as me. They want to improve.

[MetaCraken]

This issue is so important for me because I really feel like the only way to A. figure out what I want to do and B. pursue it properly would be to leave school and seek it out. My life could be a real adventure, but I feel like I'm studying As levels (UK) simply as a means to an end.

If you could offer me any further advice, I'd be glad to dialogue with you. W

[NeoChalcedonian]

Perhaps one of your most important videos from my perspective, I've just begun reading Lee Thayer and starting to see that how I describe my problems is complicit or even totally responsible for its creation. It's hard to explain but I think what you're calling "the fear of owning your decisions" was praised and covered over by my cultural-religious circles with more rosy language and I'm just now in the process of changing my vocabulary and changing my direction. Good stuff.

[lee1983us]

Thank you so much,

I needed to hear that.

[dowdfather]

I think you're right on. That said, there are certain institutional structures in place that enable & constrain ways in which we can go about pursuing edu with passion and zeal. I think we want to be careful about over-attributing the ability to pursue certain educational paths within certain environments that have preferences and motives for encouraging certain paths over others. Yes, we're not forced to be there, but perhaps part of ones education involves interrogating these assumptions?

[Professoranton]

I agree that there are some criteria, but I think we need to avoid simple checklists, or what is sometimes called criterialogical foundationalism.

[Ramiiam]

You imply that "check-point criteria" are a way of evading judgments. Doesn't your syllabus include a statement of how the final grade will be calculated? So many points for the midterm, for the final, for the term paper, quizzes, class contribution?

At the end of the semester, most professors compute final grades with a calculator (and a bit of wiggle room for rough justice factored in). Doesn't mean that jugments haven't gone into it.

[Ramiiam]

A rubric is just a statement of criteria. It needn't be mechanistic. Its not too helpful to students for an instructor to say: "I can't tell you what makes a good essay, but I know it when I see it." You may not be able to specify in advance what will make an essay brilliant, but you can surely explain what will make one competent.

Seems to me that Arts and Sciences faculties tend to react defensively to terms like "rubric" because they fear the imperialism of the educationists.