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Think For Yourself — Why Teachers Always Ask Really Tough Questions
My father told me a story once about his college Chemistry exam.
The professor walked in, handed every student three blank sheets of paper, and went behind his desk at the front.
He pulled out a match, lit it on the matchbox and simply said: “Explain what just happened. You have 3 hours.”
Most professors know one simple truth: Life is not a straight line.
When you leave college you will have to face the real world… and you are not prepared for it.
Most people truly fake it until they make it and simply try to figure things out as they go in their jobs.
Even though most of them have the technical know-how, they do not know how to apply it in the real world, which ends up holding them back.
Professors that ask these kinds of questions want to really test your understanding of the subject.
They know you can memorize formulas and concepts, but they want to challenge you to do more with that knowledge than simply writing it down.
Because they know you won’t get any more straight lines in life.
There will be no one that tells you where to find what you need to know, nothing that tells you you are on the right…
