Tfw your teachers are shit at explaining how to prove something in math...

>tfw your teachers are shit at explaining how to prove something in math, they just assume we freshmen undergrads already know
I hate the math department in my uni

How can you go through highschool and not know the most fundamental thing about math?

Some people come to college because they want to learn college level shit and don't want their time wasted trying to make sure the biggest retard in the class knows what a proof is

No. They just know that since only the real students will have bothered to keep up at school or will make the effort to work it out for themselves, they'll be able to weed out all the shit students who assume that learning is a passive process where the teacher is responsible for learning instead of an active one where the student takes responsibility for their own understanding.

They are trying to weed out the retards.
Im quite serious about this, the first half of my semester was intentionally about making as much students as possible quit because they will not make it anyways.

As a tip you will get better fairly quick as you practice and read more and more proofs.

>teachers aren't supposed to teach
ok then

>students are supposed to just sit in classes slack-jawed and not think for themselves at all
If you can't figure out certain things by yourself you're not cut out for higher education.
Besides, I bet any professor would've explained how formal proofs work if you went to a consultation, so you were just being lazy, or stupid, or both

Why is so hard for undergrads to grasp the idea of a proof? I don't consider myself gifted in any sense, but it's like some people are born without logic in them. Maybe epsilon delta could get messy but it's really not that complicated to understand what you need to do to satisfy the definition.

not an argument.

it actually is though, college is much more about working on your own. I'm sorry you're finding it out that late

>teachers aren't supposed to teach
Teachers are supposed to help students.
It does not benefit anyone if a student who will drop out anyway continues for a years because his teachers have mercy with him.

Students are supposed to learn for themselves that is one essential part of higher education.
The teacher should guide you in the right direction and help you understand but you have to work for yourself.

And if you are not good enough to withstand the pressure in the first months you are not good enough anyways.