Will teachers try to mold my brain to think like theirs?
Yes. All teachers are mad scientists who dream of creating their own minions, minions who will one day aid in a new world order in which teachers are the overlords and everyone else must provide the teacher overlords with an endless supply of apples. But not those squishy apples. The nice, shiny, crisp apples that make a loud crunching noise when you bite into them...or a good apple cobbler, but only if ice cream is supplied as well.
Okay, in reality, most teachers are not mad scientists. There may be a few mad scientists in The Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, but we find that to be advantageous for our students who desire appropriate mad scientist role models.
A lot of students get the impression that their teachers are trying to mold their brains or brainwash them into a prescribed system of thought. And the reason that this erroneous impression occurs is that teachers speak with conviction. And teachers speak with conviction because they are knowledgeable and want to be taken seriously. Just as they want you to be knowledgeable and taken seriously.
No one who works at UTC wants you to be so malleable that you will blindly become and think just like them. All of your teachers want you to learn all that you can and think for yourself and speak with conviction.
Here is a lovely video that may help you understand what your teachers really want, besides shiny, crisp apples:
Professor Repentista
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