Chapter 3016: Mercury Record (XIII)

Jenna left with her thesis. Bruce sighed at her back. After a while, he decided to call Wei En to chat about Jenna's situation.

But not long after, with a bang, the door was pushed open. Clark walked in, followed by Diana.

Seeing their bad faces, Bruce asked cautiously: "What's wrong?"

"Bruce, you have so many children, it's not your first time being a teacher, how can you still make such a low-level mistake?" Diana spoke relatively directly. Clark hurriedly pulled her.

Bruce was at a loss, obviously not realizing what was going on. Clark sighed and said: "Did you leave a thesis assignment for Class 3 and Class 4 today?"

Bruce nodded.

"Then why didn't you leave it for Class 1 and Class 2 yesterday?"

Bruce finally remembered that for the sake of teaching quality, the four classes were divided into two batches, and the class schedules of the first two classes and the last two classes were different.

For example, the criminal investigation class taught by Bruce, on the first day, the first two classes had class, while today the last two classes had class.

But Jenna's matter happened after the first day's class ended. Bruce, who had class on the first day, didn't leave any homework for those two classes, and Bruce, who had been tortured all night, in order to figure out whether this was Jenna's problem, left homework for the last two classes.

This would bring many obvious problems.

The classes were not divided according to race and forces. People of all races were mixed up. Although they formed new classes, they actually still had better relationships with their own people. Except for class, they basically walked together with people of their own race.

This means that there must be people from the first two classes in a race, and also people from the last two classes. These two sides compared notes: why don't I have to write homework, but you have to write homework?

This group of people is not the group of students at Gotham University. They are the "roll kings" (people who compete fiercely) among various races. Just looking at the posture of the Mercury base, they know that they are also studying for the rise of their race. How can the teacher still open a small stove (give preferential treatment)?

Bruce's approach caused widespread dissatisfaction among this group of roll kings, because you can leave homework for one batch of people and not for another batch, then you can teach one batch of people well, but not teach the other batch well. Differential treatment is actually the practice that most affects the teacher's prestige.

And compared to other teachers in suits and leather shoes, Bruce's dress is inevitably not solemn enough. He basically doesn't wear suit uniforms, doesn't wear glasses, and goes to class in sportswear. His expressions and actions are not careful, appearing even more immature than some students, plus he made the mistake of differential treatment, causing many students to be dissatisfied and demanding that other official members reconsider the choice of teachers.

Diana felt exhausted, because she felt that Bruce didn't take this plan seriously at all. Even if he is a mental patient, wearing a suit, leather shoes, and a tie wouldn't be any trouble, right?

Clark's view is more objective. He feels that it might be that Bruce was too tired from being busy with other things outside and hadn't adjusted his mentality, plus he really hadn't been a teacher properly, lacking experience, so it's very normal to have problems.

Clark walked over, put his arm around Bruce's shoulder, took him to the sofa, and said: "I know, Bruce, you are the smartest person in the world, doing everything with ease, so you can relax, not care about other people's eyes, and behave relaxed and comfortable."

"But this world needs some serious moments to express your importance to something. The key is not whether you really value it, as long as you make others feel that they have received enough attention, things will go more smoothly."

"Of course, you don't need me to tell you these truths. Diana and I just want to say that we need to focus on this work as soon as possible, and we also hope that you, as usual, are the fastest one among us."

Bruce rubbed his temples, frowned and said: "You don't have to be so tactful, Clark. My state recently is indeed not good, and I haven't entered the state at all, otherwise I wouldn't have made such a mistake."

"Then let's make some changes, okay?" Clark said patiently: "I think, perhaps you can explain slightly in the chat group, at least appease the students first, and then wear a formal suit when you have class tomorrow."

"I will." Bruce nodded and said: "I will post the lesson plan I wrote in the group, so they will know that I didn't treat them differently, just too busy and forgot to assign homework. As for the formal suit... do you all wear suits when you have class?"

"Didn't you also go to college?" Diana said: "At least in universities on the East Coast, professors must wear formal suits when having class."

"Uniforms and formal suits are used to emphasize identity. In ordinary times, we can be their friends and comrades-in-arms, but when having class, they must realize that we are teachers and must maintain enough respect for us. Distinguishing in clothing is the best way."

"Actually, our original plan was to wear superhero uniforms, but considering that you might not like wearing Batman's uniform, we decided to imitate professors in ordinary universities and wear suits." Diana explained further.

"Alright, I will wear a formal suit. How are your classes taught?"

Diana walked around from one side of the sofa and said: "Not bad. The quality of this batch of students is very good. Almost every one of them is a leader among their own races, and they are diligent and eager to learn, able to endure hardship. When doing physical training, almost no one shouted tired."

"I also think they are not bad." Clark smiled and said: "They absorb basic common sense of human society very quickly, and also accept the worldly wisdom in ordinary people's society well."

"However, it seems you have encountered some trouble." Diana said: "Even if it's a basic criminal investigation course, it's very difficult. At least I almost can't see any details from those bloody photos."

Bruce shook his head and didn't say much, because as Diana said, modern criminal investigation is actually a very complex subject, involving a lot of disciplines. Just taking one or two classes, even the definition of criminal investigation hasn't been introduced yet, so you can't see any quality.

After the two left, Bruce explained slightly in the group and expressed his apology, and then changed this assignment to a voluntary task. Those who want to write can write, and those who don't want to can forget it.

He also told the students that the current courses are not deep enough, and writing a thesis might not be able to write anything, but subsequent courses will introduce real cases. The thesis at that time will be more valuable, and now it is more recommended that they put their energy into other subjects.

Bruce was actually hinting tactfully: how many hands do you have? With Wei En in the teaching team, you still rush to write his thesis, are you tired of sleeping?

Bruce was thinking this way when he flipped through the chat records and found that someone was really discussing the psychology class assignment. But what surprised Bruce was that Wei En didn't leave much homework.

Because classes have just started and they are all talking about the most basic definitions, Wei En's assignment is to go back and memorize the basic definitions of psychology and spot-check them the next day.

Bruce clearly remembered that when he was in college, the assignment for the first class of basic psychology was to write the life and theory of the psychology master he knew best, and even analyze this master's theory from his own perspective.

He shouldn't have written about Freud back then.

But one thing to say, Freud is indeed a name most familiar to ordinary people who don't understand psychology. Otherwise, it's Pavlov. Of course, there are also those interested in literature and philosophy who understand Hegel and Jung.

Bruce thought for a while, then took out his phone and called Jenna, saying: "Jenna, you should have taken psychology courses, right? Go to Professor Rodriguez's office and ask him for a copy of his lesson plan. Yes, I will use it when I have class. Alright, I'll wait for you in the office."

What surprised Bruce was that Jenna came quickly and handed the lesson plan to Bruce. She blinked her big eyes and asked: "Is there anything else? Professor, I haven't finished the group report for Professor Fries's ice-making experiment yet."

"Is Professor Rodriguez in the office?"

"Yes, he is writing the lesson plan for later."

"Then didn't he say anything to you?"

"He looked at me."

"And then?"

"Then he photocopied his lesson plan for me."

"Didn't he ask you anything?"

"Ask what? Oh, actually I was also thinking, if he asked me why I wanted the lesson plan, how should I explain it, because I don't know much about criminal investigation either. But he really didn't ask anything."

"I'm not talking about my business, didn't he ask about your business?"

"Why would he ask me? He doesn't even know me." Jenna shrugged and said: "He was just reading definitions with his head down at the time, everyone was copying notes, he couldn't possibly recognize my face. Besides, I'm not special."

"You mean he only read definitions during class?"

"Yes, uh, I only say this to you. Actually, I think his class is a bit boring. It might be because the subject of psychology is like this. Apart from copying a pile of notes, I don't have any deep impression."

Bruce's expression could simply be called puzzled. He said: "Didn't he emphasize to you that you must write your homework well, otherwise there will be any serious consequences?"

"Does this still need to be emphasized?" Jenna also didn't understand. She said: "We came here to learn. Learning naturally requires writing homework. If you don't write homework, what more serious consequences are there than not learning?"

Bruce was speechless for a while.

"Forget it, you go back first. By the way, try not to tell others that I tutor you alone."

"Don't worry, I understand. You have some understanding of me beyond the facts, but I don't care what that is. I have only one goal coming here, and that is to study hard. Apart from this, nothing can interfere with me."

"Good girl, go."

For the rest of the day, Bruce had no class. He finished the lesson plan for the next class in the morning. Because he had to introduce examples, Bruce studied for a long time and finally decided to use the serial murder case where the victim was Nygma.

Before, some typical cases of criminal investigation application were introduced relatively generally, but they were not systematic and hadn't analyzed a complete case.

And if some particularly classic cases were analyzed, students could use their mobile phones to query this case to know the final result. In that case, it would affect their inference, and it was very likely to be cause-and-effect inversion, not objective enough.

Using cases that haven't been solved would be relatively better, but some unsolved cases still have no results until now, and it is difficult to reach a specific conclusion, which might cause students to have a sense of frustration.

Bruce knows that this riddle serial murder case will always be solved. If these cases are thrown to students for analysis in advance, apart from being able to borrow students' whimsy to solve the case, when the truth comes out, they will also feel quite accomplished.

Having made up his mind, Bruce wrote the lesson plan seriously for a whole morning, from how to introduce to how to expand, to how to divide groups for discussion, all written very meticulously.

Bruce wasn't born with these, he just tutored Dick's homework at the time, so he went to self-study pedagogy, and watching Wei En prepare lesson plans for so long, he could at least imitate and learn eight or nine out of ten. ===== CHAPTER 3017 =====