Psychology tutor is really starting to grate on my nerves 2bh. I've been putting up with a dull, uninterested, unenthusiastic and overly crtitical old bag who seems like she's in the job for completely the wrong reasons! Out of psychology, sociology, and biology, psychology is the only subject i don't seem to be enjoying at all atm which is ironic seeing as that subject is the whole reason i'm on A Levels. Psychology is an interesting subject and i love it but the lessons are currently the dullest moments of my life, she appears to have just been dragged in off the street and told "teach this", she doesn't seem to be interested in the subject at all, her criticisms are so clearly intened to discourage and knock self esteem, and, not only her crappy approach to teaching in itself, she seems as if she's projecting her own stupidity onto others; i was told i was wrong when i gave the right definition of empirical today, she's corrected the wrong definition of independant variables, and just today she somehow managed to reveal the fact that she wasn't sure whether an ant was an insect!!
It's pissing me off because i've been having marks knocked off assignments for "including too much", or "referring to irrelevant studies" etc when she's not being at all clear on what were supposed to be including, and giving back critically harsh comments without elablorating on either what was done well, or wrong even! Even the nature of the content we're covering atm is quite interesting yet her teaching fails to appeal to any level of human interest whatsoever! I'm finding myself becoming detatched from something i take a personal interest in while becoming more self critical and less enthusiastically confident in something that i take great ambition with. I need and i'm expecting A's from this subject and the outlook isn't good if i'm stuck with her. I'm not giving up by any means but it's hard trying to maintain and develop an academic interest by yourself with discouraging idiots like this in the education system who take gratification out of knocking others for a sense of superiority rather than doing their jobs and building self esteem, developing and maintaining interest, and positively encouraging people to do their best.