rac27 wrote:
All through High school and even now in college i feel as though I have not learned anything, no matter how many books i read or papers i write. the knowledge seems to never sink in my brain. nobody listens to me when i say it.
A cynical response to your comment could be that people in general learn very little (of real benefit) in school.
The education system employed in most countries and certainly in Western countries was developed in Prussia to produce soldiers and factory workers/employees.
The purpose of High School is for you to graduate High School.
The same applies to my Science degree.
The purpose of that period of study was to graduate from Universtiy.
I use almost NOTHING that I learned at school or University in my daily life (I was reading very confidently before I went to school and there was NOTHING that I learned in mathematics that I could not have learned from a book, staying at home)
The Universities are filled with students and employees that do and will retire into poverty.
There are people with IQ's in the top percentile who are on welfare or working in menial jobs and there are people who genuinely stuggled at school due to lack of academic ability and who are highly successful, productive, happy and financial well off/independent.
To return to your point about having things sink in, reading a book or listening to a lecture are the two most INEFFECTIVE methods of learning (and therefore teaching)
Google the 'Cone of learning' for a one page picture description.
This has been around since around 1946 and still the schools and universities keep on doing what they have always done and getting what they have always got.
The fact that you think that you havent learned anything should be an encouragement to find a better way to learn AND to learn things that are really worth learning.
Good luck
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