contemplating a small revolution

[cimorene]

One of my classmates was so cranky after a full two days of learning nothing whatsoever that she was scowling and ranting at the bus stop. I mean, she has a point, I didn't learn anything either. Knitting is pretty good anger management but it can't convert 8 hours of desultory practice with like <20 new vocabulary words (none of them difficult or NEW) into a challenging language lesson.

Unlike Azra, I don't think bad teaching is the problem; I think we're just moving too slow and, essentially, being held back by our classmates. But it got me thinking about it and there are definitely 4, maybe more in our class who could legitimately benefit from a completely different group.

I think the four of us could probably go at 1½ speed, accomplish a lot more written and spoken work, etc. It might even be possible for us to do that if we just like, asked for extra books and sat in the corner. Or maybe if we went together to the course organizer with our complaint they could find something else to do with us. Because as it stands we're wasting a lot of our time and it's not like our Finnish is so good that we should be resting on our laurels right now? We're hardly employable or anything.

Comments

[anglepoiselamp]

Ah, the same old problem as in school? I get that it'd be unfair if classes moved so fast that some students got left behind, but slowing the pace always leaves the other end of the bell curve with nothing to do. But if the teacher / system is reasonable you can probably get some extra work and stuff.