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Originally Posted by DrPhil
That is your teacher's fault and does not translate to what you think it does.
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I do too. If you can get through a intro to philosophy course without being made to learn to differentiate between Plato and Aristotle, for instance, that is your professor's fault.
Similarly, if you can get through an Early British Lit course without being able to demonstrate that you can discuss and differentiate between Marlow and Shakespeare, then your teacher is not doing his/her job.
The ability to BS through any course is not a reflection of the rigor of the discipline or the objective/subjective criteria on which students are evaluated across disciplines. It is a reflection of poor instruction, and that does a disservice to the students.
To be clear, I am not talking about sliding by with a C (it's pretty easy to slide by with a "passing" grade in most courses), I am talking about excelling.