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What would you do if your professor tells you this in class?
Okay so I'm in a programming class where the professor does not teach.
Anyway I got some questions wrong on a chapter we were in class and she told the whole class it's okay if you didn't get the answers correct as long as you tried.
Now for some this might seem like a good thing a "free ticket" out but I on the other hand am someone who wants to actually learn something.
So I told her in front of the whole class what if I wanted to get the answer correct and do them over again and she told me that I have to learn how to let it go and to learn how to be "good enough".
I was shocked. Oh and did I mention she is also the director of my major (computer science).
How would you feel if a professor told you this? I want to hear people's opinion on this.
Oh I forgot to mention that I go to an all women's college and what do you think her comment says about her outlook on women? To be good enough?
1 Answer
- Bent SnowmanLv 77 years ago
I would not "do" anything. Recognizing how someone is and will be is a skill you need to develop. In this way, you can see whether any action or discussion will have any effect on another before you invest in too much wasted effort. This person is set in her ways, the most you could do is get into an argument, but after that nothing will happen. Not every professor is like her, I have never met one like that before, so just know this is a very unique situation. You can try to not have too many classes with her from now on. Director or not, it takes a faculty to educate the students, not just one person, so it is not like this is an unavoidable situation henceforth. Just get what you can from the class, go to office hours (I am sure she will help you understand the right answers if you specifically go for that. Your anecdote really just shows that when you call someone out in class she did not respond in kind. Perhaps she also just did not want to talk about that at that moment. Just get the answers right by working hard, and going to office hours), study hard, and limit the amount of instruction she is involved with for you in future courses by choosing other profs if possible.
Just use common sense, you do not really need our opinion on this.
