You read, you re-read, you take notes, you highlight, you listen to tapes of the lectures, you study with other people in your class. You end up more confused than enlightened. You have never worked so hard. You have never felt so stupid. Maybe you are not cut out for this after all.
Many academic librarians find themselves in front of a class on a regular basis.
Probably, although you may not have realized it. Many students try to struggle through, thinking that there must be something wrong with them, too embarrassed to ask for help. Often they simply fall by the wayside. Each person has these intelligences in varying degrees. Muddling the problem further, educators are observing that many current students, products of a multimedia society, process information in ways that are very different from previous generations.