We really have serious problem at our universities nowdays. Patterns of students available at universities nowdays lack intellectual skills. I think the way they behave reflects the characters of their instructors. They have poor level of reasoning at its best. I think the system of retaining Tutorial Assistants (TA) should be evaluated again, assessment should not base on GPA only, rather should also focus on individual ability to present or deliver knowledge. Because earning good GPA can mean different things to different people and environment. Some students are good in cheating, some are good in reproducing notes and some are good in both, We need people who understand and can explain the same knowledge in their own words to be retained at universities.
I have a feeling that, these lecturers especially junior lecturers who instruct students to reproduce notes in the exams have passed the rotten system to acquire their titles. Also they have another constraint which is very destructive for breeding future intellectual, they are very reluctant to absorb challenges from their students, they are not mentally prepared to accommodate challenges and I am victim of this shortcoming. When they are faced with students who offer wide ranges of challenges, alternatives or second opinion, they become aggressive and suppress that young mind. If the student pushes the boundary, the result is always discontinuation or plenty of sups.
At university, young minds are provoked to think independently, students are only equipped with different tools for situational analysis. If you find at university, students are organizing "makongamano ya kuombea amani ya nchi, makongamano ya kumuomba mungu aliepushe taifa na mafuriko, ajali za barabarani, rushwa, magonjwa ya milipuko n.k" conclude, that is a dormant univ. How could an active mind univ. students look for supernatural solution for problems which have scientific explanation? Most of univ. students nowdays are too religious, this signifies that their brains have not been unlocked, they are still narrow minded. They are too spiritual, they can defend their beliefs to death. If you come to UDOM on sunday, you will think this is ST. UDOM univ, students are busy with their bibles going to pray, asking god to pass their exams. I always wonder where is the problem with these young mind? Can we get great thinkers out of this population? Come on friday, the same story, it is as if you have visited afghanstan. Generation that look for simple solution to the critical issues. If you get Instructors from this population, what kind of lecturers do you expect them to be?
I will be raising different issues currently pertaining our universities taking UDOM as a prototype. The way different students and ex-students contributed to my previous thread titled "tabia ya kugawa maksi za coursework UDOM" drove me to come up with this analytical thread. Ni hayo tu kwa leo.
I have a feeling that, these lecturers especially junior lecturers who instruct students to reproduce notes in the exams have passed the rotten system to acquire their titles. Also they have another constraint which is very destructive for breeding future intellectual, they are very reluctant to absorb challenges from their students, they are not mentally prepared to accommodate challenges and I am victim of this shortcoming. When they are faced with students who offer wide ranges of challenges, alternatives or second opinion, they become aggressive and suppress that young mind. If the student pushes the boundary, the result is always discontinuation or plenty of sups.
At university, young minds are provoked to think independently, students are only equipped with different tools for situational analysis. If you find at university, students are organizing "makongamano ya kuombea amani ya nchi, makongamano ya kumuomba mungu aliepushe taifa na mafuriko, ajali za barabarani, rushwa, magonjwa ya milipuko n.k" conclude, that is a dormant univ. How could an active mind univ. students look for supernatural solution for problems which have scientific explanation? Most of univ. students nowdays are too religious, this signifies that their brains have not been unlocked, they are still narrow minded. They are too spiritual, they can defend their beliefs to death. If you come to UDOM on sunday, you will think this is ST. UDOM univ, students are busy with their bibles going to pray, asking god to pass their exams. I always wonder where is the problem with these young mind? Can we get great thinkers out of this population? Come on friday, the same story, it is as if you have visited afghanstan. Generation that look for simple solution to the critical issues. If you get Instructors from this population, what kind of lecturers do you expect them to be?
I will be raising different issues currently pertaining our universities taking UDOM as a prototype. The way different students and ex-students contributed to my previous thread titled "tabia ya kugawa maksi za coursework UDOM" drove me to come up with this analytical thread. Ni hayo tu kwa leo.