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Elevz:
I wish the world wasn't filled with clueless incompetent idiots. They've even taken over the goddamned university...

For a introductory course on cultural anthropology, I was given the assignment to write a cultural autobiography. The idea is simple: describe your life and the things that influenced you. After finishing up a first version, I was told to put it online for an anonymous fellow student to give me feedback on it. After a few days waiting, I got word that they found my essay slash autobiography too complex and too literary. Could I please tone it down somewhat for the final version, so that any fellow student could grasp the meaning of it all? Guess what - I sold my soul to the devil and did just that for the final version. The result is a text that's accessible, always straight to the point and very much structured... And still this fucker didn't understand it. How fucking incompetent can you get? You're attending a university, and you don't know the meaning behind accurate every day words? You don't know how to read a text and extract the meaning of what's being said? Get a fucking grip.

By means of a special exception they'll allow me to redo my text once more and they'll actually let the professor look at it. I guess I'll have to tone it down so much that any fool could grasp the watered down version of me, because apparently they don't appreciate accuracy and a refined writing style.

The university is dumbed down to a level where the meek have become the standard, and anything above that will have to adjust to that. That's the end of science, right there. Kill the competence, and let the incompetent rule. They've got me down to a point where I'm doubtful about doing any work for a university in the future. That's a John Galt-move, I know. But fuck them.

virtuoso:

Hey I don't think it's a question of incompetence , there maybe individual incompetence of course, but it's more a question of what you yourself have recognised, a systematic means of dumbing us all down. Why would there be an educational basis of dumbing down? because it allows them who control information to mould and shape you, in the hierarchy, they need to hold the power and knowledge is power. What was done in terms of subjecting to you towards rewriting your work, was a very blatant example of them trying to condition you to think along a more narrow linear simplistic path. I must admit I have never heard of a university asking someone to rewrite an essay but even something as basic as telling you what you must include in your body of work, i.e. the details of the issue from from which the assignment is based, is steering your thinking. The fuckery starts from the moment we enter school man it's just I didn't become consciously aware of that, until I was in uni.

Tay:
Wow, that's pretty ridiculous. In the U.S., we have laws that kind of put that kind of thinking into effect. The standardized testings and the No Child Left Behind act prefer to have everybody slow down instead of expressing their knowledge. But now it messes up your story and distances it from the original meaning. Reminds me of a Joe Budden lyric, "When you dumb it down, it gets harder to understand".

Nat Turner-reincarnated:
thats truly ashame.........for real........if that nigga cant overstand that he need to step hi reading/ grammar up ridiculous

Sikotic™:
I know the feeling, my man. I recently wrote a paper on the dynamics of insulin and it's mechanics within the human body and because I wrote more than everybody else and put more detail into my paper, I got 50% credit. The professor's reasoning behind doing this: I wrote too much.

Less is more and more is less nowadays. The educational system is fucked, we just all have to play the game.

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