Timeline for How to deal with professors who don't follow the text
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| Apr 21, 2021 at 18:21 | comment | added | paul garrett | @ElizabethHenning, you are certainly correct that students who've been led to lack self-confidence can doubt themselves in coping with "live" things. This is one reason I try to emphasize my own fallibility, and the irrelevance of aiming for infallibility, during my "live performances". | |
| Apr 21, 2021 at 18:19 | comment | added | The Amplitwist | @ElizabethHenning I completely agree! I felt that this answer was not entirely the correct place to unpack all the subtleties of that point, so I tried to leave it at that. Even if I understated the difficulties, I hope I did not come across as disparaging. I am acutely aware of how hard some of my classmates have struggled to reach where they are now, especially considering their backgrounds and how it differs from mine. | |
| Apr 21, 2021 at 18:14 | comment | added | Elizabeth Henning | my classmates were unused to processing new material on the fly There's a lot to unpack here. I think you are correct that grad-level mathematics courses often advantage students who do this well, which concomitantly means disadvantaging students who don't. It is not a coincidence that those students are disproportionately from underrepresented groups, which is more complicated issue than "getting used to" it. It's somewhat true that this is how research is done, but I would argue that's a consequence of who gets selected out of this kind of training and not the other way around. | |
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| Apr 21, 2021 at 17:39 | history | answered | The Amplitwist | CC BY-SA 4.0 |