How do you learn best?

[Melanie]

It's recognized & used by Curtin University in Australia. Still have doubts?

Actually I have grave doubts. Just because a University uses it, doesn't nescessarilly give it credence. The year I graduated, I met somebody younger than I was and who I wouldn't give a job sweeping the floor, yet they had just got employed teaching electronics at a University. Gawd help those students.

...an argument of some sort, and I was going to choose the education system as the topic.

Here's a thought to get you going... Everybody quotes "Knowledge is Power"... By that idiom, University Professors should be the most powerful, richest people on the planet... yet they are amongst the worst paid, with poor prospects, next to no career path and abysmal pensions...

The real answer (secret of life, the Universe and everything - which nobody ever quotes because they don't know it) is "Power is the application of Knowledge" - but not many University Professors have grasped that concept....

[mister_e]

BUT every students trust them

[Melanie]

BUT every students trust them

Not true. From my own experience I had (mostly) Professors that were superb, but one guy was a complete a**hole... I openly argued that he was on the payroll only because he had more letters after his name than in it, and it looked good on the University Letterhead. It did not make me a popular girl in some circles...

[nomad]

but commenting on that last line would be too easy.

[T.Jackson]

The real answer (secret of life, the Universe and everything - which nobody ever quotes because they don't know it) is "Power is the application of Knowledge" - but not many University Professors have grasped that concept....

Agreed.

A lot of academics lack practical attributes. One of my old Tafe teachers springs to mind, had a wealth of knowledge, but I don't think he was very good at getting the wheels to turn with it. In fact, he had me do some of it for him. I waited 3 months to get paid for that, that's Australian government institutes for you.

[T.Jackson]

Here's a thought to get you going... Everybody quotes "Knowledge is Power"... By that idiom, University Professors should be the most powerful, richest people on the planet... yet they are amongst the worst paid, with poor prospects, next to no career path and abysmal pensions...

I'm concerned about offending the person marking this, because no matter how diligent I try to go about it, it will offend any educator. So, I'm not going to do it. Instead I'm going to create an argument on capital punishment -- does Australia want it returned? I think we do. It's an easy thing to argue about, there would be just as many reasons for it as there would be against it.