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In school we all have our favorite teachers. The ones we connected with a just loved. In college, we’re there to get a degree. The type of teachers there can make one thing that the school is just about the money. There some professors with teaching styles that put some students at a disadvantage. We all know the difficult teachers, but a lot of them you learn so much. It’s the teachers you just don’t want to have at all because you learn nothing. Why is that? It’s all about the teaching style of the professor. Should consultants be used to tell the professors what they are doing wrong and how they can improve? I think so, but students shouldn’t be the consultant as Gail Oremaland states in his essay, “The Truth about College Teachers.”
I firmly believe that college is business. It’s like getting your first job and without pay. Well, I have to take that back you can get loans and for some they’re able to receive grants. The school number one job isn’t to educate but to make as money as possible. Why do you think schools recruit sport athletes? It’s all about the money. If sports didn’t make a dime school would still recruit some, but not near the form they’re doing now. That’s the reason why we have the teachers we have in college. It’s all about the money, not about getting the best teachers. Teachers aren’t recruited anything like athletes are and we’re able to pay teachers. The reason why schools don’t have to do this is because the students are coming, so the money is coming. With sports when you team starts playing awful, the TV money and other forms of money depreciates in times.
You get professors that use the exact same lecture each term for the class until a new book is used. If there is only one ...

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...that subject would make the perfect consultant. These consultants would guide the professors in changing themselves entire not just the way they speak a lecture.
The goal is to get students to care. Caring about the subject helps you learn material better. Students would learn material that helps them solve problems in their discipline or everyday life. If the material isn’t relevant to them, it has little chance of being learned. Motivation isn’t necessarily entertaining the student; it is crafting classroom activities and assignments that force the student to problem-solve.
With better teachers, teachers that cares comes a better results you get out of students. Students are in college to learn and to ultimately get a degree. Having good teachers along the way will have them to achieve their goals and remember the things they learned along the way as well.

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