• edric@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    For conferences, there’s the ones who stand at the very back so they can easily leave if the talk is uninteresting/boring.

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    2 months ago

    Nah the side rows are for when you expect the lecture to be boring or unproductive and you want to leave early.

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        2 months ago

        Yes, this is the simple and correct answer. Yikes everyone else, you try seating 300 people in a research 1 university classroom.

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      2 months ago

      i thiiink it’s to help everyone see & hear better, like in ancient Greek theatres

      this is all guesswork but, i’m guessing that since university education historically (and in a lot of places to this day) is more a thing of the rich they actually put some thought into the design of the lecture halls. And for the education of the poors that’s simply made to condition them to work in factories they just put some tables and chairs in a room and called it a day - and since then the design stuck

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        2 months ago

        Your guesswork is doing a bit too much there. Rich schools also have flat classrooms for smaller groups, e.g 30ish.

        The reasons for stadium seating is for size, and that’s true for most schools including community colleges (and even vocational schools). Usually it’s used for classes everyone has to take, like a pre-req. High schools aren’t standardized in the same way, so you generally wouldn’t have a class of 80. High schoolers need more one on one anyway, and teachers require less specialized knowledge, so the numbers just work better that way.

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          yea true, though (and again i’m just speculating and talking out of my ass, do tell me if you find that annoying i can do research i just don’t feel like it atm) wouldn’t first schools have been made just for the working class kids? The rich kids were getting home schooled by best professors and then sent off to universities. The working class kids would be sent to the newly established general schools where they could learn and find new opportunities (and get conditioned to work in factories). I don’t think you’d see many rich kids in schools with “the poors”. And once schools became the norm, and rich kids schools began popping up then the schematic of what a pre-university school looked like was already established

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            It’s been a while since I learned the history, but if I remecmber right the first schools in the US were religious in nature. But public schooling was generally a huge equalizer, and made the most advances along with workers rights movements, etc.

            That said, there’s plenty to be upset about class-wise, just not the class size thing. It’s true that rich families have always done what they could do to get their kids ahead, generally with private school and tutoring. They have a much higher odds of getting into the better colleges, and the more elite schools tend to lead to higher pay after graduation. They’re also doing everything they can to gut public education, which is the whole point of the push for vouchers (which was especially big during the Trump administration).

            There’s a thousand more reasons to be pissed off at the rich regarding education, but if I wanted to get into every single one I’d still be in academia (My PhD in Ed was all about that). Actually, now that I think of it, take a look at Learning to Labour by Willis, as I think it reflects your train of thought.

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      2 months ago

      There was a time when professors performed burlesque shows to better teach their subject. The puritans got them though. ;-;

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    our uni had mandatory chemistry for all engineering degrees, even industrial economics and computer engineering, so naturally a lot of people had to re-take it. the registrations weren’t done processing for weeks, and during that time you had to assume you were in, or you’d be hopelessly behind. that lecture hall was filled to the brim the first few weeks every semester. people were sitting in the aisles, on the stairs, in the window sills, two to a chair… it was insanity. i really hope they fixed that.

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    Yeah, I’m a second-row person all the way; green describes me right. Purple as a backup.

    Thank goodness my college only had one of these kinds of rooms, and I was only there for a class about movies.

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    Back for me because I have a pretty disgusted, annoyed resting face. If I sit too close I’m focusing too much on keeping a pleasant listening face that I don’t pay enough attention to the material and give myself a tension headache.

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    Had three classes (5 hours) back to back in the same room one semester. I ended up switching seats to break up the monotony. I started at nerd and slowly progressed to the back for sleep.

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    What a shit.

    I just tried to get to the front, even beeing 20 min late.

    I had to update my glasses while in university for each semester.

    So I would sit at any of these seats. When friends reserved one seat in the back, I would take it but tell them that next time I have to sit in the front.

    In my country students aren’t judging people at such minor interactions.

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      2 months ago

      Again, lemmy: Some piece of shut-your-mouth is downvoting me without a reply.

      To this individual: You are hurting this community very much.

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          Yeah, because I am able to revert false opinions of mine, but lemmy has a tendency to downvote without teaching me. Opening up about my experiences is punished by downvotes without elaboration.

          That sucks so hard.

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            Just so you’re aware, I guarantee you no one is here for serious business and they certainly aren’t interest in teaching anyone.