>>12906258Hmm, I've asked myself that before. There seems to be this unspoken demeanor in US universities that if you need help or have questions you are retarded and people immediately lose any respect they had for you. I even feel this from professors,
>Does anyone have any questions? >Me: "Yes, blah blah blah blah blah" >Professor passive aggressively responds by first questioning my question, acts as if I should already know the answer and that he/she already covered it. Gives me a cheeky answer and takes a moment to lightly insult me, then brushes me off to go into tutoring after class Every god damn time. I don't ask questions for this reason, I don't even consider the professors lectures anymore, I just teach myself the material and use the curriculum as a rough structure.
I think this phenomena occurs because it's known at this point that college is just where you get a degree, and not where you go to be educated by others. If you do want to learn, that's on you, the college itself is just there to get you the degree, any learning you do is entirely on you and the actual system of professors and students is just there as a formality. People expect you to take the hint, understand this, and shut up so we can all hurry up with the program and get out.
High school was more for "instructional learning", while college is just one big hoop to jump through for the vast, and hence people who treat college as high school, asking for "help" and whatnot, are looked down on. That's my take on it.
