>>18987134

>i think shaming people more often needs to make a comeback

>it's a soft ass world

when i went to college, professors were a lot more like Drill Instructors at a boot camp. not quite, but they definitely were not shy about humiliating a student in front of the entire class if that student did something (academically) to deserve it, like fail to complete an assignment, lay a goose egg on an exam, etc etc. and it WORKS… public humiliation is a fantastic tool to motivate lazy jackasses. when you're called upon to go to the board and explain to the rest of the class how to solve a problem, and you stand there clueless, with your ass flapping in the breeze, and the whole class snickering at you while you sweat bullets… most people either drop out or else make damned sure they're never caught unprepared again.

btw, either outcome is the proper one. as a prof myself for the past 45yrs, i can say with without reservation that 80-90% of students have no business being in college. they're wasting their parents money or burying themself in student loans they will spend a lifetime paying back working at the minimum wage job they COULD have gotten as a high-school dropout. US dept of educ stats back me up, too, because it's a fact that 5 out of 6 college grads NEVER get a job related to their "diploma," a fact that i frequently repeated to my students, much to the displeasure of the admin.

>>18987170 (me)

i should add that the reason students fail in most cases is NOT lack of ability, but lack of character. they are simply unwilling to exert the effort required to master a deep and complex subject. but nowadays, guidance counselors in public schools (also known as paid shills of the colleges) fill kids heads (and their parents) with pie-in-the-sky bullshit and elitist brainwashing that people who don't go to college are somehow inferior and not worthy of respect, yet at the same time, dumb down the public school curriculum to the point that a ficus plant could complete the requirements to be graduated from high school, so that when they get to college, they are so totally unprepared for the shock of having to actually do a minimal amount of work to receive a passing grade. and colleges have degenerated into diploma mills willing to dumb down their standards in order to keep the obscene profits from the obscene tuition flowing, while taking kickbacks from the student loan industry.