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FreedomFighter's avatar

What you have pointed out, Surak, is another sure sign of a dying empire. Although there exists problems, such as lack of inspiration, lack of ambition, lack of quality education, lack of recognition of merit (accomplishment), the root cause is complacency. Somebody else with design, invent and do. We are lazy with our accumulated wealth, our "smart phones", etc. We no longer strive for excellence and accomplishment. We are driven to mediocrity. When man no longer has the desire to achieve, he is trapped.

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Eleftherios Gkioulekas's avatar

Somehow many students learned to be quiters long before they get to us. I turned all my exams take home, about 72 hours long, however the expectation is to present clearly weitten complete and correct arguments. not put right answer in a box. You would think I would have 99% A, 1% B as grade distribution. Nope. Passing rate ranges from about 50% to 70% depending on the course. People don't want to make the effort, don't know how to write, don't understand the purpose of it. And there's the groupie of 4 to 6 people that write the same wrong, weird, and unrelated thing hoping to get partial credit assuming I won't notice. On the bright side, about 1 out of 3 are doing ok, and some of these are doing pretty good.

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