A matter of perspective??
A matter of perspective??
Would you prefer lecturers who give chunks of readings or lecturers who give very miminal readings?
I guess from the standpoint of students, the lesser the better, especially when every subject seems to demand a great deal. But I guess I've learnt to perceive things from a different perspective.
Like the majority, I dance with joy when one of the subject I took had practically no reading - as in the lecturer did not assign readings for us but left it on our own to read whatever we can from his list of recommended resources.
Although I have quite decided that I'll still try and do as much reading on my own as I can for this particular subject, the joy about the fact that this subject seems so much breatheable amidst the many seemed to have swept me over ... until a friend commented that it might not necessary be a good thing to have no or little assigned readings. It was then that I began to see what this person meant and I guess I do agree with what was said.
While we often complain and lament about lecturers who "kill" us with loads and loads of readings and assignments, at the end of the entire course, we do benefit from all these disciplines and "hard labor". On the contrast, if we have nothing to read or very little assignment, then at the end of the course we might find ourselves having learnt very little / minimal.
So which is better? I guess it's more than a matter of perspective ... perhaps even the attitudes of our hearts towards learning.
Would you prefer lecturers who give chunks of readings or lecturers who give very miminal readings?
I guess from the standpoint of students, the lesser the better, especially when every subject seems to demand a great deal. But I guess I've learnt to perceive things from a different perspective.
Like the majority, I dance with joy when one of the subject I took had practically no reading - as in the lecturer did not assign readings for us but left it on our own to read whatever we can from his list of recommended resources.
Although I have quite decided that I'll still try and do as much reading on my own as I can for this particular subject, the joy about the fact that this subject seems so much breatheable amidst the many seemed to have swept me over ... until a friend commented that it might not necessary be a good thing to have no or little assigned readings. It was then that I began to see what this person meant and I guess I do agree with what was said.
While we often complain and lament about lecturers who "kill" us with loads and loads of readings and assignments, at the end of the entire course, we do benefit from all these disciplines and "hard labor". On the contrast, if we have nothing to read or very little assignment, then at the end of the course we might find ourselves having learnt very little / minimal.
So which is better? I guess it's more than a matter of perspective ... perhaps even the attitudes of our hearts towards learning.
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