I was appalled by the story, but the other students merely nodded knowingly.
For many students, merely doing the research and producing a paper is a transforming experience.
But once he has changed his course plan from having his students merely looking at art to actively creating it, the pitmen prove themselves surprisingly fluent in dialectical debate.
For example, should science education aim at conveying to students merely the content of current theories or rather an understanding of scientific method, a grasp of the tentativeness and fallibility of scientific hypotheses, and an understanding of the criteria by which theories are evaluated?
Many not all of the professors, as well as the system as a whole, did not appear at all focused on actually educating students, merely funnelling them through the system as expeditiously as possible.At one point in my senior year I was soundly scolded by my undergraduate counsellor for enrolling in a lower-division course, to make up for a gap in my knowledge base.
There was no additional application to join the program; students merely needed to fill out a straightforward sign-up form.
In most schools using traditional laboratory classes, students are given a laboratory guidebook in which the procedures are precisely described, and students merely follow the guidebook without thinking deeply [ 13, 14].
Although this is a likely alternative to students merely moving to the most common answer, our data do not allow us to distinguish between these two alternatives because in most cases the correct answer was also the most common answer.
It was made clear to potential mentors at this session that they are not expected to 'teach' students but merely to provide support around the effective integration of prescribing into a specialist area of clinical practice.
That doesn't mean universities can blame students for their own inadequacies, but the idea of a student as merely a consumer is only half the picture".
