>>11585055yeah and that's my point, people learn in different ways. by putting a stress on attendance the system is essentially declaring that paying attention to the lecture is the "right" way to learn and you're trying to cheat the system if you do it a different way. it's not like i want it to be reversed where people get points deducted for not studying on their own.
all i'm asking is for professors to stop trying to be ""fair"" by measuring ""effort"" through stuff like attendance or required readings and just measure mastery of the material since that's what higher education is supposed to be about obtaining