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Originally Posted by pshrynk
Considering that your average college student acts like a not-too-bright six-year-old, I can see where they come up with the idea.  |
Yes, but students generally sink to the expectations of the teacher.
In this case, the professor starts every class as though she expects to have to argue for her (ordinarily reasonable) positions, and because she acts as though she expects us to disagree or be confused, several of the students are. So we spend much of the class listening to people argue over the meanings of words, or having the need for gender-neutral language hammered into us, when probably we could have dealt with all those issues quite simply if the professor had taken the approach that she expected us all to be able to understand the material, but we could ask questions if we didn't.
I just think if you go into an interaction expecting a fight, you're a lot more likely to get one. I think she thinks she's "stimulating thoughtful discussion," but from where I sit, it looks a lot more like "stimulating trivial arguments."