okay, usually i'm not a hater... i keep negative thoughts to myself (except when it comes to myself). but since one particular faculty member kept tooting his own horn and saying how "radical" his alma mater (tai hsuan) was, i just can't help myself...
i attended tai hsuan for one summer. it was a very difficult summer, because i was working three jobs, including summer school teaching, to afford tuition to that freaking school. i decided, ultimately, that the school was full of s**t, because they weren't teaching me ANYTHING. the classes combined students from all levels (including students on the verge of graduation) and were conducted in a kind of question and answer format. big news for you guys. if i don't know anything to start with, i can't even begin to formulate a question! and what's more, they expected me to learn, ON MY OWN, the names and locations of the 360 or so points. what the f*** was i paying them their exorbitant tuition for!!?? furthermore, there were some classes where the instructor wouldn't even show up... we'd wait 15 minutes, half an hour, and finally decide that he wasn't coming, class was cancelled...
during one of my last classes, i confided in a senior student that i was disappointed with the education i was receiving, and was thinking about transferring. her advice? "do it now, while you still can."
so i did. i went to emperor's in california, because the standards for licensure were much more stringent there. i figured they had to have a more structured curriculum (which they did). i have no regrets.
so to a certain acupuncturist, who claims he can treat stage 4 cancer with one needle, or by making an herbal formula without even seeing a patient, i have serious doubts about your "radical" alma mater... and everything else you may have had to say.
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