Sleepy Analysis

Ahum… I’m so sleepy today… I had a very boring teacher this afternoon so I had enough time to analyze Japanese classes. Let’s see:

• Classes are not participative. Even at a Masters level, professors think that they know it all, and that students should just listen to them. No questions are made whatsoever, so classes are usually a monolog…
• Attendance is registered by signing a list, but nobody checks it out. I counted 26 people on today’s class… and the list had 50 signatures!
• Attendance is expected, but paying attention is not. Half of the students are always sleeping, and professors seem as if they just don’t care.
• Some classes have more than one professor through the month. And they don’t talk to each other! Each one uses different terminology and mathematical variables to express the same ideas, so it’s hard to us to follow them. That’s why everybody is sleeping!
• There’s no limit time to enter the class. Some even come to the classroom when there’s only 15 minutes left… to sign the attendance list!

How do they learn? That’s a mystery to me. Maybe they just call the Operator and ask by cell phone to have the “geophysical urban management” knowledge… and voilá!

Am I the only one who has to study to learn?