Rachel Oliveira

You have to be patient!! Very patient!!

This is my second graduation, here in Brazil. It is 4:36 pm on a Sunday. I find myself obliged to read a boring text, on the history of psychoanalysis, as a requirement to do a work (worth only 1.8 points!!!) in one of the elective courses required to complete college. I’ve finished all the required courses, but I have to do the electives. Electives, as the name says, should be able to be chosen. But, I had to choose 6 “optional” subjects out of the 7 that were available. Is it for laughing or for crying? It was easier to call them mandatory…

And once again, I come across BORING works, inglorious readings, which take time, but after the evaluations, they will have added little…

Throughout the course, not all subjects were like this. But, I get irritated, every time I come across one.

How can the university expect that people who live in a digital reality can still have the patience to read texts with ancient vocabulary? It’s okay that I, who am already a forty, understand these words. But, this next generation? That not even Portuguese writes right because “it’s CRINGE to write right”?

We are in the age of technology! A college can no longer be so plastered. We need more user-friendly content, more “easy” to be learned. I’m not saying in smaller quantity or with less quality, but adapted to a reality in which students are being conditioned by TikTok not to put up with content that lasts more than a minute.

If you can’t catch a student’s attention in the first minute of reading and instead still anger them at having to read all that, what learning evolution do you hope to achieve from that student?

We are charged with a new pedagogy, but we are taught with old methods and texts. Difficult.