A math instructor from Russia, Andrei Toom, explained how he tried to teach students with an anti-intellectual mindset. “When I tried to teach students, they would ask: Will this be on the test? If I said no, then the students would stop listening and wouldn’t care about the material I was teaching them” (Toom 126). Students become aggravated when they have to do more work beyond the normal standard. Many students don’t believe better teaching when they are challenged more, instead students would rate this teacher poorly, merely because the teacher wanted to challenge their students. Because of this situation, teachers fall short to the standard and fear going beyond the standard of education. This situation reinforces, that instructors never
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“Students become bored, they stop caring about school and find different things to do” (Damron 19). A possible way to engage students, is of course to raise the standard of education at every level, and to challenge their students to achieve excellence. In order to help accomplish this goal, the curriculum should be stricter, and instructors learning new teaching techniques. Schools need to persuade students there is a difference between academic success and underperformance; where success will provide a future benefits, and underperformance will be disciplined. Some ways that could help would be to report how the students are doing in the college their attending, and letting future employers know more about the academic success of the student who tries to apply to their company. Graduation requirements should be stricter and minimum grade point average should be raised. College should explain how their students are doing to the high schools where they graduated …show more content…
Advisors shouldn’t portray to students, the only way to a successful life is by going to college. Tech and trade schools should be an option that every student should learn about before deciding what college they wish to attend. Students who only care about classes that pertain to a certain job would enjoy tech and trade schools more than four year universities. Students who see themselves as a blue collar worker could save money and more time efficient if they attend one of these colleges compared to a four year university. Teachers need to learn more about student anti-intellectualism, they should conduct surveys of their students to gain more understanding of why students act how they do. Teachers would be able to understand what students think of education as a whole. Freshmen seminars could be a way to explore how students adjust from high school to college. In freshmen classes, teachers would be able to assign readings about student anti-intellectualism and have them discuss what their thoughts on the topics
“Students become bored, they stop caring about school and find different things to do” (Damron 19). A possible way to engage students, is of course to raise the standard of education at every level, and to challenge their students to achieve excellence. In order to help accomplish this goal, the curriculum should be stricter, and instructors learning new teaching techniques. Schools need to persuade students there is a difference between academic success and underperformance; where success will provide a future benefits, and underperformance will be disciplined. Some ways that could help would be to report how the students are doing in the college their attending, and letting future employers know more about the academic success of the student who tries to apply to their company. Graduation requirements should be stricter and minimum grade point average should be raised. College should explain how their students are doing to the high schools where they graduated …show more content…
Advisors shouldn’t portray to students, the only way to a successful life is by going to college. Tech and trade schools should be an option that every student should learn about before deciding what college they wish to attend. Students who only care about classes that pertain to a certain job would enjoy tech and trade schools more than four year universities. Students who see themselves as a blue collar worker could save money and more time efficient if they attend one of these colleges compared to a four year university. Teachers need to learn more about student anti-intellectualism, they should conduct surveys of their students to gain more understanding of why students act how they do. Teachers would be able to understand what students think of education as a whole. Freshmen seminars could be a way to explore how students adjust from high school to college. In freshmen classes, teachers would be able to assign readings about student anti-intellectualism and have them discuss what their thoughts on the topics