A Plan for Better Education: Teaching 101

An all too common hindrance to class lectures at Suffolk University, and their students’ ability to absorb information efficiently seems to occur often due to the professor’s inability to use our classroom’s tools. Granted, most students here can’t claim to be academic saints either, but at least most of us don’t have to ask how to turn on the classrooms’ projectors.
 
Soon after I recognized this problem, a possible solution also came to me: a mandatory class for professors on how to use tools for teaching competently. Then, I realized that the creation of such a system for refining teaching standards held too many similarities to President Obama’s proposal for universal healthcare; therefore my idea would also likely be doomed to failure.
 
Indeed the resembling areas of contention within each proposal are canny! Firstly and most problematic are the monetary costs of each. School administrators would have to pay for the professors’ class, just as the government’s counterparts would with healthcare, chiefly using the people’s money for each. Just as many rich Americans apparently don’t want to pay for a poorer citizen’s operation, those students with a richer intellect probably won’t want to be bothered with spending money on those who are struggling with ineffective teaching.
 
In the professor’s class, a unit on how to properly share markers would definitely be included, if it were created. Then again, personal greed would cause problems once again, as some professors would hoard writing utensils like heroin, while others are left with dry ones that can’t make marks visible to eyes even an inch away from the board.
 
Creating a system of universal healthcare would be a colossal change in how our society lives, a fact that many Republicans detest on mere principle. The professors of more advanced ages at Suffolk share a similar attitude to change, being too set in their ways to learn how projectors work.
 
Each proposal also had their own special-interest groups, intent on stopping anything that went against their agenda, no matter how beneficial to society as a whole it may be. Nationally, they are the private healthcare and drug companies; at Suffolk, they’re the various environmental groups, hell-bent on banning professors from making too many handouts that might kill extra trees.
 
So maybe my idea isn’t exactly perfect; but at least it’s an idea. In the meantime there’s still pointless struggling going on that won’t go away unless something is done about it. I dare anyone to come up with better solutions.