Adult Students

I don't have much time for a post between jobs, but it was better to do it now than at 11:00 when the whole thing has settled. Apparently its better to go to school -university- as an adult. According to this person, you have life knowledge blah blah blah. Well in my opinion that's wrong. That is unbelievably wrong. For one adult students hold their opinions strongly and will fight to the death with a professor about this. Not to mention the amount of class time they waste arguing about something irrelevant to course material. Young students are young and impressionable. They haven't formed all their opinions yet. It's a good time to teach them to be open and to be critical thinker. Adult students without prior university classroom experience and education aren't open. Here's what I heard today "I agree to disagree." You know what? That's what you say to some ignorant or irrational schmuck because they have no ability to listen to other people's arguments. I on the other hand am willing to be open to other people's opinions. Not necessarily is what I believe purely correct. And if you have substantial evidence or an argument that can't be broken down semantically or logically, then I'm open to changing my mind. There is nothing more closed minded than saying "I agree to disagree" when someone is actually engaging in something intellectual. Don't start a discussion with me if you go in thinking you're right and leave midway so that you aren't proved wrong. That is ignorant in itself.

Second thing pissing me off is don't tell me formal and life experience philosophy are the same thing. You're kidding right? Don't even go there with me. I'm not going to even start. And you know what? Being 4 years older than me doesn't make you smarter than me. It definitely doesn't mean that if we have similar knowledge in something, that you know more about it than I do. Life experience and age doesn't equal intelligence. I can respect other's opinions and accept them, but if you read it in an article and I took 3 university classes on it, I win hands down because my foundation of knowledge on the subject supersedes yours.

Adult students: get off your high horse. Adult students are more annoying than people who think they know everything. If you already know everything, why are you in university? Stop wasting everyone else's time and money. Age doesn't mean you can undermine other people's intelligence.