Madhumati Gandhi asked my pre-calc class to work on a review test, to show our work. I can't wait to show her my work. After laboring over this for days since she assigned it, I have it around 80% done, and with my rough drafts it is about 18 pages.
Again, I can't wait to show her my work. What's sad, is that 30% - 70% of it was guesswork, and I don't have to guess to know that it's probably wrong.
The book doesn't explain things as she does. When I confronted her with some inconsistencies between her teaching and the books her response was "The people who wrote the book are idiots."
Just voicing my 18 pages of frustration. Nothing to see here, move on.
Itchy_turd - 11/03/2006 06:58:00 PM
Those damn Indians just want to have a teaching job so they can act like fucking rulers of their own little ego-warped microcosm, where they think they are smarter than the books, where they carry on in their own bastardized version of the King's English and are keeping their students so clueless on the material they are trying to learn that no one is able to step up & point out the fallacies of their views and throw them head-first out of their ivory tower.
That's really the tamest thing I'm capable of saying about them.
Van Sutherland - 11/09/2006 08:11:00 PM
I've known and worked with a number of Indians over the years. They are, generally speaking, the same as everyone else. Meaning they are prone to vanity, humility, indecision, insecurity, and just plain stupidity, as are we all.
Long ago one of my teachers (and one my best) said that if you disliked something, it was probably because you didn't understand it. I'm old enough now to know that isn't always the case, but quit often is.
I also had a calculus professor who was absolutely worthless, responding to every question with "It's obvious!". Well, if it were so obvious, why did I ask a question. Fact is, he did me a favor by failing to answer my every question. Not because he inspired me to work harder, but because I came to the realization that computer science wasn't my forte. So I became a geographer, and I have been very happy with that decision.
The point I'm trying to make is this; quit whining and bitching, and find what you're good at, and what your enjoy. Other than whining and bitching. You're not going to make any meaningful contribution to this world, and this culture, unless you get your head out of your smug ass, and get to work.
The Indian who is teaching you (badly or otherwise) did just that, and now they're getting paid a pretty good salary, I'd wager, to put up with lazy American students.
I'm 53 years old, retired military, now working as a professional geographer, and proud of my work. And I worked hard to get here. I suggest you start working on your life, or 30 years from now you'll still be complaining about the Indians, or the Chinese, or whoever it is you're working for.
Chuck's old dad
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Chuck - 11/09/2006 09:36:00 PM
For what it's worth, I only have to make a 31 on my final exam to pass the class with a C. I have to score better than a 50 to make a B. So, chances are pretty good that I'll come out of that class with an A.
I am a bit surprised to hear such a racist remark from you Jordan.
Itchy_turd - 11/14/2006 11:41:00 PM
The perfect example for the term Ivory Tower is a professor telling their students the book the is written by idiots, of course meaning that said professor is on some higher mental level about the content than the course material, so elite that to try to explain the material on their level it's incomprehensible to the students.
My statement above is not a description of my views of Indians as a race. It is a description specifically of Indian professors working at Tech teaching any courses related to engineering/mathematics/computer science, based upon my experiences and more notably multiple experiences from our peers within the past 10 years, and which to me was again validated by your original post.
I do not believe this is due to malicious intent from these professors, or that they are somehow racially inferior making them incapable of doing the job proficiently. It's really just a level of indifference they have, which in a job requiring them to both know the material & be able to teach it to students (or at the very least, fluently communicate it to them) paying to take the course means they are incompetent. Just as you wouldn't want a team of incompetent surgeons staffed at our hospital, I see incompetent professors at a college as also intolerable.
If their pay was structured in a way where they have a $30K annual salary and they have to earn their other $30K-$50K as commission based upon how many students in their class can pass a standardized proficiency test on the material at the end of the semester, I'm sure they'd have greater motivation to communicate effectively.
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