Reply #147: Here's the fundamental misunderstanding about education...

[wickerwoman]

people think it's a commodity and that if you pay x amount of money you should get y amount of education and if you don't it's a "rip-off".

The thing is, you weren't paying for "knowledge" you were paying for the *opportunity* to get knowledge. If you didn't take very good advantage of that opportunity (by challenging yourself, by doing more than the assignments asked if they were too easy, and by participating in class to make it more interesting both for yourself and other students) then whose fault is it if you didn't get a very good return on your investment?

And since when is utility the measure of knowledge's worth? What ever happened to learning for learning's sake?

I don't mean to go off on you, but I get *so* sick of students who sit there like lumps, who haven't done the reading, who act like every assignment is a colossal inconvenience to them, and who refuse to answer the most basic questions let alone make the effort to ask questions of their own and then bitch and moan four years later because they haven't learned shit.