FW: A Quality Education Educates

I think a quality education, educates. The statement alone sounds absurd, but think about what it is saying. As far as the undergraduate program goes at BYU, professors have it in their heads that impossibly hard tests qualify their classes as a “quality education.” I don’t think that Harvard produces its Ivy League quality by making their tests extremely hard. So why do some of our professors? A test is a DIRECT REFLECTION of how one educates a class. A quality education produces a quality result. If the class average is at a 67%, then maybe you should take a step back and think, “maybe I’m not providing a quality education because I see absolutely NO quality result.”
Yes, Economics, American History, and Biology, are the classes that immediately come to mind. Ah, then the well-thought, sarcastic reply of our “best” professors who say, “percentages are all in your head. If I added ten percent would you feel better?” To that I reply, “Yes! Of course I would. Harvard, Stanford, Yale—they don’t care about your psycho-driven exams! They see a final grade of a C and think, ‘This candidate can’t even pass a general education class. Send his application to the garbage.” Why do you ruin your best students? Why do you prevent them from fulfilling their dreams? Professors, take note, if your class average on an exam is a D, maybe you should resign your teaching positions and start your own university—in the middle of the ocean and on the bottom of the sea floor! Now that outburst was a little frank, but how is our faculty allowed to escape without any kind of response from the student body? Well, finally, here it is (obviously, a bitter reply at that).