Great video. Thanks. Corey! I completed a Maths degree this year (with good grades), but during my University years, I was unmotivated 95% of the time. I still can't decide whether or not I should go back and do a MSc. I need regular mental/intellectual stimulation, but I don't really have any ambition as such. I completely agree with the responsibility thing. I was a really over-protected, pampered child, and as I get older, I'm more and more suprised at how good it feels to be independent.
Wasn't a Bateson double bind where there is 1. A relationship that is important for ones survival (have a future) 2. The incongruent messages If you Drop out you are a failure and destroy your future If you do not want to study drop out 3. No withdrawing from the situation or commenting on it. Withdraw->drop out, comment not possible 4. Long lasting and self perpetuating. I have to want to follow the exam requirements. I do not care about grades, I care about learning.
"own who you want to be with passion" words to live by. Yeah, I've never seen somebody who was brought down by a bad professor either. I have seen people who have stayed with an advisor for too long, but again, its a free country, own your present, own your future.
@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).
It's not necessarily as easy as just getting out, when you uproot your entire life to move to a university you are investing financially in your education, and withdrawing without the degree would be an extremely poor decision because you would have the debt associated with the education but no degree, and no legitimate means of paying it back. That said, the problem with education is not related to any one particular student or professor, it is systemic.
I don't think a major overhaul of the institution of the university should be out of the question. The setting should ultimately be geared toward the learning of each student. Otherwise, what's the point?
How many people with straight C's on their transcript get into medical school, law school, or graduate school? Being average is great, but not if your dream career requires a terminal degree. That's why student aren't jumping for joy when they get a C.
It's intensely meritocratic (not undergrad; postsecondary in general)--if it's not almost entirely intrinsic, the whole system will swallow you alive, because it's rigid as fuck. So, essentially, it's like "Black Swan" ;-)
Great video. Thanks. Corey!
I completed a Maths degree this year (with good grades), but during my University years, I was unmotivated 95% of the time. I still can't decide whether or not I should go back and do a MSc. I need regular mental/intellectual stimulation, but I don't really have any ambition as such.
I completely agree with the responsibility thing. I was a really over-protected, pampered child, and as I get older, I'm more and more suprised at how good it feels to be independent.
Wasn't a Bateson double bind where there is
1. A relationship that is important for ones survival (have a future)
2. The incongruent messages
If you Drop out you are a failure and destroy your future
If you do not want to study drop out
3. No withdrawing from the situation or commenting on it.
Withdraw->drop out, comment not possible
4. Long lasting and self perpetuating.
I have to want to follow the exam requirements.
I do not care about grades, I care about learning.
"own who you want to be with passion" words to live by. Yeah, I've never seen somebody who was brought down by a bad professor either. I have seen people who have stayed with an advisor for too long, but again, its a free country, own your present, own your future.
@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).
It's not necessarily as easy as just getting out, when you uproot your entire life to move to a university you are investing financially in your education, and withdrawing without the degree would be an extremely poor decision because you would have the debt associated with the education but no degree, and no legitimate means of paying it back. That said, the problem with education is not related to any one particular student or professor, it is systemic.
Thank you sir.
I don't think a major overhaul of the institution of the university should be out of the question. The setting should ultimately be geared toward the learning of each student. Otherwise, what's the point?
How many people with straight C's on their transcript get into medical school, law school, or graduate school? Being average is great, but not if your dream career requires a terminal degree. That's why student aren't jumping for joy when they get a C.
It's intensely meritocratic (not undergrad; postsecondary in general)--if it's not almost entirely intrinsic, the whole system will swallow you alive, because it's rigid as fuck.
So, essentially, it's like "Black Swan" ;-)