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Originally Posted by JinnKai
If I do not learn what I should be learning, that is my fault any the only person I truly hurt is myself. Why should anyone else give a damn? If I get a job and I don't know the things I should, that is reflective upon me, not the degree.
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Actually, it does reflect on the degree and the school. If it becomes common knowledge that you can get a degree from school A without actually being capable of the doing the things you should be able to do with the degree, then why would anyone want to hire someone from school A?
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School is NOT a competition, and I think it offends me a little bit that people are competing for grades, when they SHOULD be focusing on actually learning the things they pay to learn. I'd be much happier to get a D in a class and learn a ton than get an A in a class and learn nothing -- but I get the feeling most people want the A just because it looks good -- THAT's the thing that bothers me.
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School doesn't have to be a competition, but for many people, the idea of competition is a motivational one.
I could get a D in all of my classes, no problem. It would actually be a lot easier and i could probably do it without learning much of anything. For most classes, getting an A requires that i understand what the class requires and more.