No, it isn’t you. It’s a fundamental flaw that needs to be addressed in your school/college.
So far, these are the only reasons I can think of as to why your school has a teaching method as lousy as it is:
- Your teachers are only being catering to the auditory crowd, leaving the visual learners and tactile learners to sit in the back of the class without the benefit of an education.
- Your teachers are trying to keep the equipment pristine so that when (I don’t know what they are actually called ) an educational inspector comes in to see if you guys are well equipped, the teachers can point to the unused stuff and say “see? They have the tools they need to excel in the class.”
- You’re teachers don’t bother with one-on-one training.
The only solution I can come up with that won’t turn your teaches into your enemies is to record the lectures and look up on-line tutorials on what ever subject you’re having trouble in.
The story you’re telling is hauntingly similar to what my brother went though. He was a perfectly normal boy, but someone who had difficulty learning if it wasn’t ‘hands-on.’ Rather than cater to his needs, they sent him to the back of the classroom, told him to be quiet. He had a string of bad teachers like that, and so he struggled though elementary, junior high, and high school.
If what you’re going though is anything like that, then you have my firm support and righteous anger toward your college.
(sorry for my outburst.)