I once had a lecturer who did not know what he
taught (either he did not know or he was not sure). When he conducted a test or
an examination, he expected us to produce exactly what was in the handout (word
for word, space for space) which was also not made by him but a senior
colleague lecturer.
After taking his
paper, you go to your room with headache not because you had to think but
because you had to memorize every detail and produce it. Such a lecturer also
demanded for Book and Research Allowances. I believe there are many lecturers
out there who fall under this category of lecturers who wouldn’t like to read
through students’ work before marking. Always looking for simple avenues to
make work suit them. For Christ’s sake we are in the university to think not to
“chew and pour”. You are to mark my ideas which are similar to yours not yours
which I try to understand and that is why it is called an examination so that
you assess my understanding of the course and not how I memories details.
This explains why we have some first class students
who are lost in the field because they did the ‘chew and pour’ stuff and did
not even understand what they produced to the lecturer therefore becoming less
creative people at their workplaces. It’s rather unfortunate some of those who
think ahead are those in the second class upper and lowers and find it
difficult securing jobs. Even when they do, they are able to stay longer in
their jobs than others. Unfortunately, these are the same lecturers who would
come on air and say we are less thinking graduates.
Until
lecturers like that my lecturer change, Ghana will see university graduates
come out and the results would be the same. I cannot end this article by not
saying BRAVO!!! to all lecturers and teachers who encourage creativity and
research and mark students who produce exact details in handouts down. You
really deserve more allowances than the others.
In
some institutions, lecturer’s award marks to students who seem to have read
wide hence encourage research knowledge. I would like to encourage students not
to rely much on lecture notes but also do their own reading; at least it widens
your horizon.
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