Essay Two

3. The last portion of chapter two focuses on perceptions held by some students wherein they equate asking for assistance with being weak. In an essay of approximately 500 words, describe the inherent dangers directly related to such beliefs.

Why is that when a student asks for assistance, they are considered weak is it such a bad thing to ask for assistance? It is by some considered weak and embarrassing to ask for help on a topic when a student does not understand what is being taught. To ask a question is to show that the student did not understand the lesson. The other students in the class may have found that the lesson was easy to understand it could be seen by some students as showing stupidity for asking a question for what is deemed by the majority of the class as being simple to understand.  It is embarrassing for some to ask for a professors help. Most students ask for help from a classmate or friend they trust for help because they trust that they will not be judged by the one they are asking unlike asking for assistance from a teacher asking for assistance from a classmate or friend is more one on one and does not involve everyone in the class needing to know that the student asking for help needs that help. To some mainly introverts its preferred to ask a friend they are comfortable with for help as that way they will not be wasting the professor’s time with a question that may have been previously answered in the lesson. In some cases some students like myself used to ask questions without any problem but then came my senior year of high school. During my senior year of high school I had heard of a math teacher whose class was know to be what thought as self-taught where the student would basically have to rely on notes and help from the smarter students. I had to take this teachers class for statistics and in this class anytime a student would want to ask a question they would be shot down by this teacher she would say how it was considered rude to raise ones hand while she was teaching and even if she wasn’t talking she would something about how the student should have been paying attention or to look at their notes for an answer. Because of this experience I have learned that I need to rely on mainly myself and my classmates as I did and through that class many of us became closer as we all helped one another pass the class. In college its harder to get to know a professor because they have so many students it must get difficult for them to keep track and learn the names of all their students. Unlike high school there were fewer students and it was easier for an alum to get to know their teachers and be more comfortable around them comfortable enough to ask questions and help on topics they don’t understand well enough. To ask a question or help to someone who is a complete stranger could be difficult because one may overthink what may happen it could be that the student will be ridiculed which is very unlikely or a more likely answer is that the professor or teacher does not do questions and the student should have been paying attention.