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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mr Professor doesn't know his students' ages and birthdays. He's just spewing bias. [/quote]

You know, for all of the angst and stress constantly bubbling on these education threads (including the college and university one), it's kind of amazing how much vitriol gets consistently "spewed" at professors.  Parents on here tend to be interested in having their kids go to college, but there is an enormous amount of hatred directed at those of us who are supposed to teach them.  It feels like a real disconnect to me, especially when members of my profession are sharing their experiences with kids who are just older versions of your kids.[/quote]

If he cannot handle teaching 18-year-olds (or she), they should not be teaching.  Simple.  People percieve older kids as smarter, but you cannot change IQ or easier and that's not necessarily true.  You cannot make kids smarter by making them older.  And, maturity is subjective.

I doubt the professor knows ages or probably even the students' names... be real.[/quote]

I'm the professor who posted, and my reasons for advocating older college freshmen have nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with maturity.  If you have a 16-year-old who has the necessary resilience, organizational and life skills, practicality, and judgment to succeed in college, be my guest.  But undergraduates as a population tend to make bad decisions and a portion of them do fall apart, especially the younger ones.  I'd rather see some of these kids arrive at college a year later after some more psychological growth.[/quote]

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