Abolishment of Seminar Classes
The educational system adopted by the English department at CadasmusUniversity is unmistakably shaky. This can be attributed to a multiplicity of reasons, the most important of which is the existence of futile seminar classes. Actually, these can hardly be called seminar classes because they, both in the outward form and in the essence, lack the very qualities that makeup real seminar classes: a respectably tidy sight, a comfortable atmosphereand a serious discussion wherein everybody takes part. The uselessness of such classes, their lacking in these essentials and the consequent urgency toabolish them are all due to the huge number of students, to the paucity of classes and to the few teachers appointed- sometimes haphazardly- to lecturethose poor souls who have begun ruminating on why they should waste their time and effort attending useless classes.Firstly, the numerous hosts of students make it next door to impossible tohave effective seminar classes. These classes are supposed to be realconferences in which every student participates in a lively discussion of acertain topic. However, this remains a sheer Utopian impracticable thinking because students are unbearably multitudinous. In a class consisting of atleast two hundred students, one feels quite insignificant and in manyoccasions cannot find a chance to express his or her views of the subject being discussed. The ultimate result of the many voices being unheard isterrible sense of being uncared-for felt by not a few students. It is surprisingtherefore that these students should show indifference or disinterestednessand will not care a damn to try to make swarms of estranged colleagues drawtheir attention to what he or she has in mind. The combination of all thesefeelings within oneself and the resultant preference of self-effacement willnaturally create a barren one-sided discussion between a lecturer and a passive, unresponding and frustrated throng of students.Secondly, the small number of classes, as often scheduled, is yet another factor that adds to the vanity of the so-called seminar classes. Necessitydictates that with the wild increase of students, the number of classes shouldalso increase. It is unreasonable to have at large four classes in whichstudents are packed like sardines. The over-crowdedness of students makesthe classroom disorderly, suffocating and not at all comfortable. In thisagitated state, turmoil reigns supreme; it disturbs the mood desired for a proper study and distracts one’s attention, if any, from the point in question.Such a pretty kettle of fish will in the long run make a good many studentssicken of having to struggle for a seat and of exerting too much effort tryingto trace the lecturer’s words which are occasionally dimmed in the buzzes
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