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Understand, don't just read.
Don't just read, understand.
(Second of my set of some quick weekend doodles.)
Don't just read, understand.
(Second of my set of some quick weekend doodles.)
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meanwhile schools: read, remember, repeat!
I was actually getting worse grades at some classes, because I understood and tried to tell thing in my own words rather than stupidly repeating what was written.
Some teachers even liked rather quick "good enough" answers than a little late perfect answers, even while they denied it at same time.
For example English class teacher. I'm standing in front of blackboard, get sentence to translate and few seconds of time. Because words in my mother language are in totally different order than in English and those were two sentenced connected together, it took me a little longer. You have to add few words in correct places and totally shuffle order of words so it sounds natural and makes sense. When I had sentence prepared in head, teacher already called another student who just translated sentence word by word. I got worse grade because I wasn't fast enough to answer and even teacher knew it takes me a little longer.
What is worse, exactly this teacher never tolerated translation word by word, but it seems like it was better than waiting few extra seconds. Even while you had to perfectly knew English to understand that translation.
But electronics teacher once really surprised me. Classmate was tested in front of blackboard and had to talk about some topic. I and other students around checked his notebook and you wouldn't believe it, he had probably photographic memory. He was talking word by word exactly like in his notebook! When there was smudged text, he paused. When sentence was shifted and eyes naturally started reading different sentence, he did exactly that! :D I had solid laugh but I knew teacher will be happy to hear what he wants to hear and will give him good grade.
NOT TODAY! Teacher let him talk for a while and then just said "and now by your own words". You should have seen him! He said part of some sentence from notebook. Long pause. Part of another sentence from different page. After maybe two or three sentences he was red like lobster and failed exam, because he knew only to repeat what he heard and wrote, but didn't understood a thing! :D
Sadly many teachers don't see this far and let many students go to final exams (which they finish with perfect results) and that's how we get engineers which don't actually know what they're even doing :(
I then tried university after high school and honestly, I had to end it during first semester. All teachers wanted to hear EXACT definitions from THEIR OWN textbooks they wrote and if you told it by your own words, you automatically failed. So I said to myself "wiser retreats", left school and went to work.
Since then I say engineering and bachelor degrees are often overrated. I actually worked with two bachelors and those guys....I have never seen so stupid people in my life. One had simple task to take photo of products before they are sent out and then pair photos in system with order. He managed to erase all photos from memory card THREE TIMES during one day. How stupid must somebody be to do this "accidentally" three times during one day?!
How do I know? Because I was only guy who knew how to simply recover those photos, thus saving hours of work to worse paid people than he was. Because you know, bachelor is something better, so he must be paid extra since beginning. Even while his only job was taking photos (which he failed to do) and others were there for years working non-paid overtimes and any error meant less money for them.
He also tried to shoot me in leg with stapling gun because he thought it was funny *sigh*
Thankfully I changed job few years ago and I'm finally happy. People with engineering degree are real engineers and normal people at same time. You can chat with them freely about anything, go to pub drink beer, anything. They're not trying to be smarter or better than you and they will support you when needed, even while they could simply walk away as they're not your leaders. When you have idea, they will hear you and discuss about it. I just love that place :)
I was actually getting worse grades at some classes, because I understood and tried to tell thing in my own words rather than stupidly repeating what was written.
Some teachers even liked rather quick "good enough" answers than a little late perfect answers, even while they denied it at same time.
For example English class teacher. I'm standing in front of blackboard, get sentence to translate and few seconds of time. Because words in my mother language are in totally different order than in English and those were two sentenced connected together, it took me a little longer. You have to add few words in correct places and totally shuffle order of words so it sounds natural and makes sense. When I had sentence prepared in head, teacher already called another student who just translated sentence word by word. I got worse grade because I wasn't fast enough to answer and even teacher knew it takes me a little longer.
What is worse, exactly this teacher never tolerated translation word by word, but it seems like it was better than waiting few extra seconds. Even while you had to perfectly knew English to understand that translation.
But electronics teacher once really surprised me. Classmate was tested in front of blackboard and had to talk about some topic. I and other students around checked his notebook and you wouldn't believe it, he had probably photographic memory. He was talking word by word exactly like in his notebook! When there was smudged text, he paused. When sentence was shifted and eyes naturally started reading different sentence, he did exactly that! :D I had solid laugh but I knew teacher will be happy to hear what he wants to hear and will give him good grade.
NOT TODAY! Teacher let him talk for a while and then just said "and now by your own words". You should have seen him! He said part of some sentence from notebook. Long pause. Part of another sentence from different page. After maybe two or three sentences he was red like lobster and failed exam, because he knew only to repeat what he heard and wrote, but didn't understood a thing! :D
Sadly many teachers don't see this far and let many students go to final exams (which they finish with perfect results) and that's how we get engineers which don't actually know what they're even doing :(
I then tried university after high school and honestly, I had to end it during first semester. All teachers wanted to hear EXACT definitions from THEIR OWN textbooks they wrote and if you told it by your own words, you automatically failed. So I said to myself "wiser retreats", left school and went to work.
Since then I say engineering and bachelor degrees are often overrated. I actually worked with two bachelors and those guys....I have never seen so stupid people in my life. One had simple task to take photo of products before they are sent out and then pair photos in system with order. He managed to erase all photos from memory card THREE TIMES during one day. How stupid must somebody be to do this "accidentally" three times during one day?!
How do I know? Because I was only guy who knew how to simply recover those photos, thus saving hours of work to worse paid people than he was. Because you know, bachelor is something better, so he must be paid extra since beginning. Even while his only job was taking photos (which he failed to do) and others were there for years working non-paid overtimes and any error meant less money for them.
He also tried to shoot me in leg with stapling gun because he thought it was funny *sigh*
Thankfully I changed job few years ago and I'm finally happy. People with engineering degree are real engineers and normal people at same time. You can chat with them freely about anything, go to pub drink beer, anything. They're not trying to be smarter or better than you and they will support you when needed, even while they could simply walk away as they're not your leaders. When you have idea, they will hear you and discuss about it. I just love that place :)
It gets worse as they age out. The knowledge disappears. I was trying to find info in a search engine for this, and came with term 'STEM crisis' in a story link. Ouch, even the US Pentagon is dealing with people educated beyond their means. XD
Another article says "All in all, STEM-based education teaches children more than science and mathematics concepts. The central focus on hands-on learning and activities sparks creativity in students." which is no shocker to anyone with any kind of technical skill. Next thing you'll tell me is that good writers read a lot. XD
It's ironic that what makes you good at the basic stuff, is horrible for everything else.
Another article says "All in all, STEM-based education teaches children more than science and mathematics concepts. The central focus on hands-on learning and activities sparks creativity in students." which is no shocker to anyone with any kind of technical skill. Next thing you'll tell me is that good writers read a lot. XD
It's ironic that what makes you good at the basic stuff, is horrible for everything else.
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