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In reply to the discussion: What kind of education did Trump get at Wharton? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Lol, "stupid as a cork." Dumb as a bag of rocks here. Or to really get it across, dumb as two bags of rocks.
To be fair, I took econ 101 (macro) at a community college, and that was the toughest single course I've ever taken to that point. First time I ever had to really struggle to understand, but the class was interesting because no one had to study to pass if they didn't want to.
The professor makes me smile to remember,and he always seemed amused by us. He was really good and his lectures worth sitting in for. But he knew most in his giant classes were unambitious business majors getting their tickets to ordinary jobs, while others were getting general ed classes out of the way for low cost before transferring to universities for various fields of study.
So students could earn a C by memorizing a few definitions and being able to remember the answers to multiple choice questions in the workbook, same questions on the tests. B's required a lot more, though, required remembering and understanding the material, A performances with any other econ professor. To get an A, people had to have all the regular material plus extra readings that pushed beyond nailed back and forth to be able to solve problems not presented before. Huge leaps between levels. Not Wharton or Penn, but some students planning transfer to economics programs at places like UCLA or Pomona chose to kick off with this guy's classes. Or maybe their parents decided. An entire semester cost residents about $50, not including books.
Different worlds.