The concept of "Ideal", is irrational. Such a concept cannot exist in a large setting, for each individual has a different view of ideal. On a personal basis, an ideal college would mean short, but educational and entertaining classes held by an ideal professor that inspires meaningful and self enlightening discussions. The class would stay on a class related topic, but not stagnate, and we would come to terms with our topic ourselves. The class would not have homework, because we'd remember the topic due to our revelations, and each class would integrate into the next, to keep our mindset and ingrain the ideas better. We would be able to take all the classes that interest us and none of the classes that have no meaning. Tuition would be free, yet we still somehow get educated and informative professors.
Obviously, this setting could not exist and in the hypothetical situation where it did exist, I would wish it didn't. The school would cause gaps in my knowledge due to lenient curriculum, and several concentrations and majors would be looked over due to the low variety in classes.
Every aspect in the University, along with everything else in the world, has a trade off, and when properly analyzed the current college model, admittedly weak and lackluster, makes sense. The decisions made have always had a low risk, high reward output. Thus the only way to create an ideal college is with even higher reward, from the schools perspective, and that in itself creates a whole slew of problems on its own.
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I also believe that an ideal university would be hard to achieve since everyone has different opinions. I agree on his ideas about his ideal university, especially making tuition free. It would allow more people to be able to further their education and receive a college degree. The cost of tuition doesn’t allow many students who wish to get a college degree to get one. The aspect that classes in college should be shorter yet educational, and taught in a more entertaining and interactive fashion is something we both had in common for our ideal universities. We also agreed on cheaper tuition, in his case he believed tuition should be absolutely free. Our opinions differed on homework and assignments; I believed that homework and worksheets should be used in order to balance student’s grades, but Don believed that classes shouldn’t give out homework. I also liked how he thought classes should be integrated with one another which would allow students to demonstrate what they have learned by using the information in multiple classes rather than just one. The information would then be repeated over and over and more likely to stay in the student’s memory.
ReplyDeleteIts possible to design a university that meets both of our needs, but some kind of tuition would be needed to be put in place in order for the university to run properly. The students classes would be integrated with one another, they would be shorter and more interactive. Then some kind of rule would be put in place for homework and assignments.
I found Don's opinion about an "ideal" university to be quite intriguing. His idea that teachers should not give homework because students will experience "revelations" in their classes is unique and gives a new persepective on teaching. Though Don clearly illustrates that an ideal college is outlandish and irrational, he explores the reasoning behind it and takes a unique viewpoint to the assignment.
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