XáreneTue, Jul 10, 2007 Well you can't drop out with only one year left... you've been through 3/4...
Do independent studies. Make up a course with someone who you feel can point you in the right directions and do what you want. Knowledge is everywhere. That's my strategy since I've faced the same problem as you.
Yes, universities are based off of centuries old models of master-apprentice. And like you pointed out, knowledge was not accessible anywhere else but academia so the professor, really was a master compared to everyone else in society.
Maybe one problem is fear of, or resistance to change, and maybe even laziness in needing to change. (ie, "This class syllabus has worked before and I've taught it this way the past five years. It'll be too much work to change it...")
Maybe another problem is the superstar status of some faculty, and how the departments feed off of that and boast about it in all their literature, and it trickles to how students exacerbate it by praising faculty because they've been told the faculty are the Shit. Then they all feel like they're the Shit and the faculty make them say and do as they please because who are the little minion students to question them. Then students like you get bored.
Well you can't drop out with only one year left... you've been through 3/4...
Do independent studies. Make up a course with someone who you feel can point you in the right directions and do what you want. Knowledge is everywhere. That's my strategy since I've faced the same problem as you.
Yes, universities are based off of centuries old models of master-apprentice. And like you pointed out, knowledge was not accessible anywhere else but academia so the professor, really was a master compared to everyone else in society.
Maybe one problem is fear of, or resistance to change, and maybe even laziness in needing to change. (ie, "This class syllabus has worked before and I've taught it this way the past five years. It'll be too much work to change it...")
Maybe another problem is the superstar status of some faculty, and how the departments feed off of that and boast about it in all their literature, and it trickles to how students exacerbate it by praising faculty because they've been told the faculty are the Shit. Then they all feel like they're the Shit and the faculty make them say and do as they please because who are the little minion students to question them. Then students like you get bored.