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Why pay for college education? So you don’t have to teach yourself.

If teachers don't explains things, then what exactly are they for?

University could be a whole lot cheaper if they gave out diplomas for just reading the text books.

Can you summarize this as a PowerPoint and then reuse it for the next 4 years?

What's really BS is the professors who don't teach jack shit during class and just expect students to do all the reading on their own time, then fill the actual class time with busy work. That was wayyy too common when I was in college.

The whole point of college is supposed to be to have highly qualified individuals giving you individualized instruction on advanced topics. That's why it costs literally tens of thousands of dollars. Yet more and more the professors are losers who couldn't hack it in their fields and the "lessons" are just there to fill time while you're expected to do most of the actual learning on your own.

I'd say about 10% of my industry knowledge when I graduated came from my classes, the other 90% was independent study or picking stuff up "on the job" at internships and jobs I worked outside of class. Basically I burned countless hours and tens of thousands of dollars just to get the piece of paper at the end. And talking to colleagues over the years, that's not at all an uncommon experience

If nothing is laid out for me and I just have to read a bunch of textbooks, what exactly am I paying tuition for?

All of my courses did the bulk of instructing and learning during class or lab time, and it was a fulfilling, educational, and enjoyable experience.

College is expensive, it's not unreasonable to expect the instructors to be willing to and capable of instructing.

I always viewed it as a give and take. You're expected to do the reading and understand the basics. The professor is there to give context and help you work out the harder stuff that doesn't leap off the page. If neither does their job, no learning gets done.

If a teacher can't inspire learning than they might be shit teachers. If the class is just read this boring book and regurgitate it back to me do you expect students to care?

I'm an audible learner, I can read something 4 times and still not understand how it works. I paid for college to listen to my professors and lecturers, and I retained knowledge by attending all available sessions.

Stop making excuses for being a bad teacher.

This is so true. By college, far more learning and work takes place independently. A professor will teach 3-4 hours per week. Definitely not enough to “explain everything”.