As the new school year starts: faculty, be kind, students, focus and do your best. Neither student or faculty should hesitate to use the phrase "teaching and learning styles don't mesh" and pursue other options if possible.

As the new school year starts: faculty, be kind, students, focus and do your best. Neither student or faculty should hesitate to use the phrase "teaching and learning styles don't mesh" and pursue other options if possible.

I've been a privileged student - learning through high school came pretty easy; a poor student - immaturity and poor study skill made first tech diploma way harder than it should have been; and a motiviated honours student - second tech diploma and undergrad degree by distance learning. Through it all I had good instructors who seemed fair but that could be because I'm a fairly open person.

The way you are treated by instructors (or employers for that matter) shouldn't rely on how well you fit socially but it does. Back in the day, I think teachers/instructors/faculty were relatively well paid, respected and students accepted a more authoritarian style of learning. Instructing has changed - especially for adult students. Lots more competition for attention and with the deluge of information you really need to connect the dots for people. I think respected teachers/instructors/profs always did.

Education should be a win-win.
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