A letter from the Internet has been running online for a few days a professor of indignant physics and "pissed off" with your students after correcting the exams. In it he relieves himself and tells all of them what he thinks about the level of the exams and what he thinks about the barbarities that some of them have written, in addition to criticizing the motivation of students and university students.
Maybe you wonder why in Babies and more We talked about a letter from a teacher addressed to young people who already step on the university, if we are a medium focused on babies under six years. I do it because of the letter the debate about the education of children in our country is reopened, and I do not speak only of the education they receive in schools, but also of what they receive or should receive at home, since childhood. But let's not run so much, let's first read the letter from the teacher, who has crumb:
The letter that the physics professor hung on the bulletin board
As you can see, I just posted the final notes of the Ordinary Physics II. I can not help but get my deepest discontent with what I have had to read in recent days. It is no longer about not doing or not knowing, but about the real BURRADES that many of you have left in writing, as well as spelling mistakes that made my eyes bleed, as well as authentic examinations filled with tipex, studs, Unfinished phrases, dances of meaningless equations or explanation, absence of conductive thread of the exhibitions, bad writing and labyrinths of illegible letters. You are supposed to be university students, that in a few years you will take the reins of society and have to work for it. Do you know what image you give some with your exams? I am ashamed to hang this list, I assure you from my heart that I am ashamed and that all exams that pass 4 are corrected twice with magnifying glass trying to find some detail that I would have passed to raise the note. The big question is, aren't you ashamed? I found melting ice at 100ºC, at 6.66ºC at -20ºC,… WHAT TEMPERATURE IS THE FOUNDING ICE, BY GOD? Or is the word flux what you don't understand? (which I would worry about too much). First principles of thermodynamics that relate work to cargo, WITH LOAD !!!!!! WHAT LOAD? Beams of light with spiral trajectories HAVE YOU SEEN IT SOMETIMES? Non-luminous light. WHAT IS THAT? And I don't follow because the list of nonsense is infinite. And none of these "originalities" have been found once but several times, some up to a few dozen times. DON'T GIVE YOU SHAME? I hope and trust that this will help you learn for the extraordinary, that you do the exams clean, orderly, well written, without misspellings or childish derisions and above all I hope you study as you are, university students, ADULTS. As such you occupy a privileged place in these difficult times that run, and this forces you to study 8 hours a day, to work like any worker eleven months a year, something that no matter how much you swear to me that I can not believe in view of the vast majority of what I have read. It would not be fair for me to speak only of the disasters I have encountered, although they have been the most overwhelming majority, as you see on the list. There have been exams that have been a true delight to correct, of some of you who show with clear evidence how much you have studied and what you have worked for throughout the continuous evaluation. My most sincere congratulations to all of you. And my thanks for your effort. And if a few can, why not others? Think about it. Please. Do self-analysis, a self-criticism, have the courage to be honest with yourself and remedy on time. Or else do not insist on something that is too big for you, if that is the conclusion. I repeat that you are privileged in these hard times that run and that the way in which many of you will waste resources and your potential is immoral. As a grandmother's advice I tell you something that I have been told before: you will never have the age, the strength, the potential, or the opportunities you have today, take advantage of them before you have to regret not having them taken advantage of. I am very upset, and in honor of the truth, pissed off. That is why, and for other occupations that I have, that I prefer to cool and leave the exam review by Monday 16. If you come to see your exams make you aware of what you have written, read the Tipler, and analyze your answers. I am not willing to repeat the same thing n times. To many I am going to make you read aloud what you have written. I hope you give me more joy in the extraordinary. Receive all greetings.
The education children should receive at home
Fed up with suffocating pressures, punishments, insults, cheeks and "because I command it," many of the children of yesteryear, adults today, have made the way of educating their children more flexible, putting less rules, giving more freedom and leaving children more control than we had. Perhaps it has not been done in a conscious way, and perhaps there are more reasons, because many learned to obey, many times without knowing why, and they grew lost without knowing very well what path to take until the person who dominated them made the decision to they, now being adults, parents, who also do not have much capacity to educate their children and are more comfortable in continuing to obey, even if it is obeying the children and / or the surrounding people who tells them how to educate them.
What I want to say is that it seems that we have left authoritarianism behind and instead of accepting a parenting and education style in which minimum standards of coexistence continue to exist, in which there is communication between parents and children, in which they spend time together and that the creativity of children is valued and allowed and their curiosity and their desire to learn are enhanced, we have moved to a rather permissive style where children seem to be the ones who set the standards at home, without parents having a vote, where leisure comes from television and screens almost exclusively and where time with children has been replaced with a "look, honey, what I bought you."
Lack of social norms, lacking direction, lacking values (and that is why we are always told to parents that we have to educate them in values), they arrive at the school where many parents have the hope that there they learn everything that they do not at home They have learned: to relate in society. The problem is that this is not the job of the teachers. A school must provide its students with knowledge, encouraging learning through children's motivation, their innate curiosity. With time and resources to make it possible. If instead they have to spend a lot of time teaching them to be people, damn grace. I don't say you don't have to work. It is obvious that yes, just as families can and should be an active part of children's learning, but in this sense I think that external people and institutions are leaving too much weight, and it is neither fair nor logical.
If the child eats badly, we point him to the dining room to be taught to eat. If he hits his sister, we take him to the doctor to refer him to the psychologist. If you have to remove diapers, see if they do it in the nursery. If a wound is made, the nurse to heal. If you don't read well, reinforcement. If it is unbearable, let's see if they teach you to sit and relax at school. And what is the role of parents, then? Because if everyone else has to solve everything, I don't see what is the responsibility of the parents in the education of the children.
Let's start parents by assuming our role as educators again, spend more time with them, promote reading, go out to see nature, see the world, play with them, let them make decisions and defend them, to argue them. We have to teach them to think. That they doubt, that they ask and we take advantage to answer an "I don't know", when we do not know it, and add a "but come, that we go together to know the answer".
Talk to your children, explain what your life is like. What you do, what you like or what you don't. These days I have been doing surveys to children of sixth. They are 11 and 12 years old. Many have failed to answer the question "What do your parents work for?" How is it possible that a child of that age has no idea what his parents do?
And I do not say with this that we must return to the authoritarianism of yesteryear. Not at all. The consequences are terrible. Many adults now are still suffering, with problems to make decisions, to take the reins of their own lives, problems to maintain stable and healthy relationships with other people, to have the feeling of never having done what they wanted to do and be living the life that others have chosen for them. That is very hard, it creates an inner void difficult to solve.
No, we must not return to authoritarianism, what we have to do is simply be adults and be parents. Act as such, be responsible and educate our children. We cannot spend our lives licking our wounds based on seeking satisfaction in the form of leisure or consumption to feel less empty. We cannot because, as parents, we are doing the same with our children, not being for them and with them and indirectly creating new wounds in them that we try to heal in the same way (buying them things) and that they will lick in the future in the same way .
The education children should receive at school
More or less, in the previous point, I have already commented on how the education that children should receive in school should be. An education where they can focus on the contents, trying to know the potential of each child, their individual needs, their concerns, and working on them. Listen to each other's concerns, working in groups, learning all together, etc. Talking a lot in class, making games and performances to live the contents. Not only that they listen to them, but that they reproduce them, that they are immersed in it, who feel participants in learning. Doing more and listening less, because it is much easier to learn what we do than what they tell us.
It is just a summary. It is just a snack of a type of education that should leave behind forever that "I vomit my knowledge about the student" so that at the end of the course "I vomit them on paper" so that two months later "I don't remember anything", to embrace a style in which memorize less, but learn more. To train children, to keep them motivated and to learn why they want to know more about these issues. The end of class bell rings and the children say "Jooo" instead of "Bieeennnn". It's possible? I don't know, but at least we should try.
The letter from the physics teacher
Speaking, finally, of the letter from the physics teacher, tell you that when I read it I have felt the same confusion that I feel every time I talk to children in sixth grade (which are the ones that I most agree because it is the age at which I have to put vaccines for hepatitis, papilloma, etc.). Maybe I am not able to remember how we were at eleven and twelve, but my feeling is discouraging. Every time I see them (not everyone, I can't and don't want to generalize), I suspect that in a few years we will have many problems to move this country forward. The only consolation I have left, being sarcastic, is that they can get into politicians, which is a job that doesn't require much preparation.
Puzzled, because it is a university professor. I understand that a 9 year old boy can get bored by a class because he agrees that he doesn't like or care about that topic. He does not have the ability to choose what they teach him. But un university access to a career by personal choice. It is there because you have decided to study that. It is what he likes, is what motivates him or is what he thinks is best. I do not say that you have to take honors, but a minimum, since that is what you have chosen. That a majority of students in a subject obtain such terrible results as to provoke such a letter is worrisome and seems to respond that children and young people are living life by inertia, because it is the case to live it that way.
Now, they say a thousand sneers, they commit spelling mistakes that make their eyes bleed (I do not understand it, I used to finish the dictations without faults in third of EGB) and are able to remove a university professor from their boxes. Is it all their fault? I don't know how this teacher teaches, but I could be partly to blame. Perhaps he has not been able to adapt to the new times and has not realized that it is more important to motivate and maintain motivation than to release knowledge to the air So whoever wants to take them.
But of course, the fault cannot be just her. Misspellings should not be controlled in physics class, or writing problems. This comes from further back, from high school, from ESO, from primary school, from ... and from home, also from home. Apparently, there are university students who are not able to write meaningful sentences without committing spelling mistakes that harm their eyesight. It is unfortunate. It is the clear sign that we are going from bad to worse. It is the result of many years of doing very badly with children. A failure.
Is it her fault? Is the fault of the young people you talk about? No. The fault is of all who form this society and all those responsible for educating our children, our youth and our citizens. Let us think about it, parents, because politicians are not going to change something that they are not even able to understand.
