I feel your pain...
Unfortunately the current Western schooling is system is still based upon the 19th century Industrialisation model.....it doesn't really favour the likes of us 'divergent thinkers' - there needs to be a radical education revolution to keep pace with modern society
This is another reason why I wont be returning to college after I leave. I want to study other topics and might take classes to supplement my knowledge, but I'd prefer to teach it to myself and discuss it openly with other interested in it as well. I trust myself more and I like to leave room for other perspectives, creativity and other conclusions to be reached. From what I've observed, A LOT of people don't want to participate in classes that are more ambiguous, so our system caters to that. I hate it. Yes I can read a damn book and regurgitate the info but I'd much rather look past that and weave things into a new idea.
I had a professor for a Korean literature class, I believe she was an ENTP (older lady), who came off as a bit tough but she wanted you to really think about the info, and not just regurgitate it. Anyway, we had to do a presentation where we compared one of the readings with something else we were knowledgeable about. At the end of the presentation, she'd ask you are
really broad and open ended question. This freaked everyone out, but I wasn't afraid. They all wanted to know the question before hand so they could think about it and hated having to come up with something on the spot. If you didn't get it right she'd say "Nice try" (lol), so when I went up there, and got to the end of my presentation, I was able to relate the ostracism of Chinese women that were used as prostitutes during war time to the same ostracism people face when they are attached to someone who has committed another unsavory crime like a serial killer, terrorist etc. She then asked, "Why don't
you think they detach themself from the person?" and I said because people feel guilty by association and don't want to be cast in the same light as the offending person. She replied "
Interesting, very interesting", because she was offered a new perspective.
Lol, she was definitely Ne dom and I really appreciated it. I also did well with another ENTP professor from a sociology class I took.