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First Year Seminar, a class to create zombies.



I obviously have major issues with this, as the entire mandatory course is to get you to think by refusing to think for yourself and instead seek out all information before making any sort of process to rationalize why an answer might be.

An example, 2+2=4. Now most everyone knows this, but were you presented with it completely written out like this at first or in the manner of 2+2=?

By asking a question, you can make a guess based upon your own knowledge of a subject. Here we can figure out the process that leads to the answer of 4 and find our own faults or successes to better adequate our self’s for similar issues in the future, or even find new methods of developing answers.

In contrast, this class wants you to stop that and accept answers with little thought onto why or how that answer came to be. They call this “critical thinking”, which upon researching the definition of the term…. no where close. I say close, because the term is very lose, with many different interpretations of it. None of which coincide with accepting what bullshit is feed to you.

“This class is here to give you the skills needed to be successful in college!” I’m maintaining a 4.0 in all my other classes with their piles of mostly busy work, have taught myself skills in a 4th the time that through the educational system would otherwise make you, and in term am happy with myself as a person.
Needless to say I might not do well in this class as my ideology of life might threaten another persons job >..>

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