Is a school "too easy"?

[Maniac Craniac]

That's a good question that I have no answer for, just some personal observations.

The biggest challenges I've faced in education have been courses that I consider to be artificially difficult. So, either courses where the amount of busy work required far exceeded what was reasonable in the given timeframe, or courses where the textbook, exams, or other required materials were so badly worded that it took extra brain power just to figure out what it was trying to say.

Some of the most frustrating occurrences I've experienced have been exams that use entirely different terminology than the text books to describe the same concepts, and text books that take 12 pages to badly explain what I was then able to find clearly and comprehensively explained in a 2 minute YouTube video.

So, the question for me is whether or not the rigor a program provides is the kind that strengthens your skills or the kind that just beats you up for the fun of it.