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Message To My Freshman Analysis

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In Keith M. Parsons’, “Message to My Freshman Students.”, He shows that he is very biased. To me the points he tells don’t prove anything, as they’re invalid. He tells how students need to adapt to how professors teach, when coming into college. He also tells that the teachers are the ones to blame for freshman students being, “apathetic, incurious, inattentive, unresponsive and frequently absent” (Keith M. Parsons’,” Message to My Freshman Students”). He goes on to talk about how him as well as other Professors are not Teachers. Regardless if the teachers are evaluated and professors are not, the main goal is to make sure the students understand the material. Now I agree that students should be challenged. However, don’t change their entire …show more content…

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