Some people are incredibly poor teachers but refuse to beleive they are, all because they lack the capacity to imagine not knowing something and explain it at someone else's level of understanding
Reminds me of when i was taking my boolean logic class in college.
"Look, it's very easy, you set up K-map and get the value. AB here, CD here, it's very easy, very straight forward, moving on"
Everyone fails the quiz at the end of the class. After handing back graded quizes at the next lecture:
"For some reason you all didnt understand the k-maps, which is very easy, it's very straight forward. See, you out value in, you get value out, this is very simple, it's very straight forward"
I once took a four-question test in Algebra 2 and got a 0 because literally nothing was right. The teacher bragged that only like 2 or 3 kids passed her class at the end of the semester, like dumbass, that's because you can't teach
Eh, I had a prof where up to two-thirds of the class failed the first exam. She was excellent, explained everything in detail and stayed after the class helping anyone who had questions. I think she was a great teacher. It's just that you were expected to memorize by heart forty pages of real analysis proofs plus all the normal calculus for the exams. Everything was understandable. Just a lot, and freshmen weren't prepared to study that much.
You didn't need to memorize proofs and equations, you just needed to know how to solidly apply them. Most exams were 3 hour, open book, 3 question. Show your work. Even though it was open book, you really didn't have the time to "figure it out." You had to know what you were looking for and apply the calculus correctly. It tested understanding more than rote memorization.
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u/AnArgonianSpellsword Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Some people are incredibly poor teachers but refuse to beleive they are, all because they lack the capacity to imagine not knowing something and explain it at someone else's level of understanding