<p>I have always heard that college professors care less about the students than high school teachers and thus the learning environment is not as good, so people tend to struggle more. Of course this is a generalization, but how is this a factor at MIT? </p>
<p>It kindof seems like a reasonable assumption, because college professors have a lot more to do than just teach like highschool teachers. I have also heard that only the professors who really want to teach at MIT teach; is this true?</p>
<p>there are no entirely true generalizations.</p>
<p>Look at Richard Feynman</p>
<p>btw, the teachers i met were really good from what i saw</p>
<p>Haha, actually Feynman was a professor at Caltech for quite a few years. I believe he went to MIT for undergrad though.</p>
<p>yup, but i was talking about professors as a whole. =)</p>
<p>well actually feynman wasn't all that organized or clear as a lecturer. he might be the archetype of what jnnypea means -- brilliant, insightful, good for your mind, but not the kind of simple, straightforward teaching that high school teachers deliver.</p>
<p>Professors at MIT are like professors anywhere else -- some of them are very good, some of them are mediocre, and some of them are bad.</p>
<p>I think the "learning environment" idea has limited validity -- of course, college professors don't spoon-feed information like high school teachers do and therefore students sometimes struggle. But I've also seen students struggle in courses taught by very good teachers; the struggling is also strongly dependent on the difficulty of the course material.</p>
<p>Many classes at MIT are taught jointly by two or more professors (Professor X teaches lectures 1-7, Professor Y teaches 8-14, etc), so if you really hate a professor's teaching style, you can at least have a reprieve before the end of the course.</p>
<p>just wanted to add:</p>
<p>feynman is the MAN</p>
<p>was the man =(</p>
<p>I wish I could've had him teach my class</p>
<p>some good some great some terrible.</p>