A Clep Hater

[burbuja0512]

Not sure why you're giving this person your brain space. You don't have to be evangelical, help those who ask otherwise just work on your own goals.



*I wanted to edit and add a little thing that I usually just keep to myself. Self-teaching is a skill. Not everyone has it. Everyone can develop it, and IMO should try to do so to some degree. MANY people, however, need a teacher to talk at them, to interpret their text and to humanize the text. To "decode it" into simple language. While I think teachers should meet the student's needs, I see this as a weakness to be conquered, not something to be desired- especially to be seen as superior to self teaching. I'm bias because I've been a teacher at a community college for 17 years, and the hand-holding is crippling. I don't do it, period. I require that my students use intuition. I require this of my homeschooled children as well. Resourcefulness, intuition, and self-reliance all fit in well with testing- and a person who lacks those abilities will likely not embrace the testing option, or understand the bigger picture because they don't see themselves as having a deficit.

Well put, and yes I have had that thought too. Self-learning isn't bad when you're just memorizing and then regurgitating info, but it can be daunting for totally new topics, for me this meant Microecon, Finance, & Money & Banking. Teaching yourself how to calculate beta is not something everyone can do!