Two Ways Students Learn

    The way a student looks at the material of a course compared to the professor is very different. The way a teacher teaches the material by teaching the fundamentals and scaffolding that’s required in order to understand the material at a deeper level. That method of teaching shows that if the basic concepts are understood by the students, the students will remember and understand the material better by building off previous knowledge.. Albeit, while some students see the material under this light, and desire to understand how the material works, there are students who view the problems and see them as “obstacles” that need to be overcome. This means that these kinds of students see problems, and instead of thinking about “why it works”,  they think “how can I solve this problem in the easiest way possible”? For some material this method of thinking is more beneficial if a student knows the material they are learning is not a measure of their capabilities of understanding the material, but rather a measure of their intrinsic motivation to learn the material for an A. This method of “dodging” the content but still passing the course with an A is a flaw of the current education system, due to the fact that the system weighs two individuals who understand and retain the material at different levels, as equals.