College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself

https://lemmus.org/post/21111758

I was failing engineering probability and statistics until i stopped going to class and just read the book. Then i got an A. Professor was just horrible.

I didn’t like history, until I just sort of discovered it on my own. After that, I wondered why EVERY history teacher I ever had before or after, was so terrible at it. It’s the most fascinating subject, just stories of interesting people doing interesting things, how can you fuck that up?

And yet somehow History has to be taught in the most mind-numbingly way possible.

it’s because they don’t share their excitement, or they are stuck teaching a time period they absolutely could not care about if they tried.

i have a history professor friend who does women’s history in europe renaissance through… i wanted to say industrial revolution i need coffee and that doesn’t seem long enough. apparently she is the best person to go to prague with.