[light_hue_1]

I'm sorry, but I've taught a lot of students at the university level. Some of them have exactly this attitude. You're simply wrong. And on the long term path to failure.

The exercises are invaluable. You don't get the answers because then you look at them. The whole point of the exercises is for you to do them, and then for you to figure out if you are right or wrong!

The content of the exercises isn't in the book because you need to actually do things to learn. You cannot learn math, physics, and many other topics passively.

You're ignoring the main lessons and features of the system.

And no. There are countless amazing books. The fact that you can't see that is because you don't understand how to learn.

[thatfrenchguy]

Yeah reading and doing stuff is how you learn any topic, getting the right solution is not really the point (and arguably should not be in the book in the first place).

The main issue with education is grades and how obsessed people are with those as a sorting mechanism for students.

[akasakahakada]

OK well then 2+2 is 5. I figured out the answer myself, good for me, good for the humanity.

[tru1ock]

And why are they not doing the exercises? Are they lazy? The moment a significant percentage of learners are alienated by the system then there is something wrong with the system. Currently a specific subset of learners fit into this system. The rest either needs extraordinary grit or fail since it is not setup for them to succeed. I for one welcome AI to burn some of our old decrepit institutions to the ground.

[corimaith]

The problem with linking success to attitude is the counterfactual; Would students with the right "attitude" been successful regardless?

That's why more formal academic studies are needed for topics such as these rather than anecdotes, because we'll find a whole range of contradictory opinions.

[akasakahakada]

If you choose to fight with me, I fight with you. You dig your only grave. You just jump out and admitted that you are the problematic human teacher that causing social problems.

I do my homework when I feel like I need them. Accessibility to the solutions is a problem. Learning though examples is another prominent way that you don't see. People can choose to investigate into the problem right now or absorb knowledge then think about stuffs. I have 80 years in my life expectancy to do exercise and indeed solving problems everyday is that. What is the point of "figure it out yourself" about some useless math at the moment when people have their whole life to think about it? People know nothing because you never tell anything. You failed your job as a teacher. You are doing excellent job of not documenting stuff and being anti knowledge accumulation.

[akasakahakada]

Tell him to figure it out himself, not read.

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