Department of CSIE
高嘉豪
Do students have the right to cut classes in college?
You would think that for students to go to school, appear in class, listen to the lectures, and just learn from the teachers is something that can't be more normal or true, and skipping classes is like breaking the laws and unforgivable. Maybe it easily applies to some of one's studying periods, elementary school, junior high, senior high, but college? I think there're lots of people who would beg to differ on this one, including me. In college, especially in this era where teachers' powerful authority and controlling are barely existing , students have much more freedom and rights, which inevitable leads to the question: "Do students have rights to skip classes?" Well, I think any grown-up, mature college student sure do have the ability to determine their own priority and choose to cut classes or not.
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Assuming that you can learn the same thing in a way which is way more suitable or effective for you than go to classes, then why take the bumpy road when there's an easy and smooth path ? Everyone should have a different study method that's best and only for themselves, but at school professors only teach in their own ways. Take me for example, when I learn through listening the lectures, whatever I get is something that's been organized, formed, and completed by other people, which means that's their own thoughts and not mine. However, If I learn something from scratch all by myself, I get to piece every detail together, let it make sense to me, and receive it; what I learn is truly mine. This means that going to class and pay attention and listen don't necessarily do you any good, or may not be the best for you, then if you can use those hours choosing your own method to study and yield the better result, why