Did you preface the teaching of St Augustine with the arguments you just made for it? (fun minutiae , deep meditation, example of great rhetoric), or did you just go "here, read this, it'll be on the exam"?
In my experience, outside my core curriculum, lecturers never told me why I needed to know something. To me, the social sciences were about as fun to study as getting teeth-pulled, it was horrendous. To this day, I can't remember a single thing I read in college outside of science/math/engineering.
Instead, it was just "here, read this, it'll be on the test". No build up, no explanation on how it's going to make my life better, just "your'e required to know this for the exam". Thanks, but no thanks.
We are literally bombarded with new information constantly, if you really want me to learn it, please explain why it's important.
In my experience, outside my core curriculum, lecturers never told me why I needed to know something. To me, the social sciences were about as fun to study as getting teeth-pulled, it was horrendous. To this day, I can't remember a single thing I read in college outside of science/math/engineering.
Instead, it was just "here, read this, it'll be on the test". No build up, no explanation on how it's going to make my life better, just "your'e required to know this for the exam". Thanks, but no thanks.
We are literally bombarded with new information constantly, if you really want me to learn it, please explain why it's important.