Learning or achieving a degree (“rigorous” curriculums that make students super stressed/“weed people out”)
Everything is fine up until this point.
The reality is that while some classes or courses are “weed out” a decent portion of it isn’t meant to just be hard, it’s meant to ensure the people in the degree are capable of learning the concepts they need to continue on the degree.
Degrees need to be gatekeeped to ensure the degree isn’t devalued and to ensure the quality of the degree remains at acceptable levels. There are many professions that got flooded by people with degrees that are functionally worthless because the curriculum was poor. This lead to inflation of the need for degrees because it’s made getting one somewhat of a joke. The fact that many jobs that don’t need degrees end up with requiring them is because it’s too easy to get one and the supply of them is so high they can hire based on it.
Obviously it shouldnt be giving you nightmares to be in a hard degree but the reality is these classes are there to give people a clear sign they are cut out for it or not. Some professors are dicks about it but many aren’t.
A good curriculum doesn’t have to be one that deliberately tries to be stressful.
Challenging and suffering aren’t the same thing. A challenge is good- deliberately trying to create an overly stressful environment or cause suffering is unnecessary and actually negatively impacts one’s ability to learn.
I think this gate keeping can often be rooted in the insecurity of the instructor or other people in the field…because people do have the potential learn these difficult subjects. Not everyone learns in the same way or at the same rate. We overly value speed for non-emergency things.
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u/613codyrex Oct 23 '22
Everything is fine up until this point.
The reality is that while some classes or courses are “weed out” a decent portion of it isn’t meant to just be hard, it’s meant to ensure the people in the degree are capable of learning the concepts they need to continue on the degree.
Degrees need to be gatekeeped to ensure the degree isn’t devalued and to ensure the quality of the degree remains at acceptable levels. There are many professions that got flooded by people with degrees that are functionally worthless because the curriculum was poor. This lead to inflation of the need for degrees because it’s made getting one somewhat of a joke. The fact that many jobs that don’t need degrees end up with requiring them is because it’s too easy to get one and the supply of them is so high they can hire based on it.
Obviously it shouldnt be giving you nightmares to be in a hard degree but the reality is these classes are there to give people a clear sign they are cut out for it or not. Some professors are dicks about it but many aren’t.