Students
are the Borg. No, really, they are. No, they’re not a unified hive collective
out to conquer. But, like the Borg, they
adapt.
All
attempts at teaching them are eventually adapted to. The techniques simply
become ineffective. They no longer work in any way. Moreover, we don’t have a
means to identify why these techniques
fail.
Our sleeves
and hats run out of tricks. We have nothing else to try, and, to be blunt,
inventing new techniques is a losing proposition for us. There’s no money in it
for us. We don’t get paid to research new techniques, to spend countless hours
scouring the internet and getting in discussions to develop new lessons.
And the
full-timers are immune. Their jobs are secured and they have no incentive to
improve.
So the
Borg, relentless, continue on.