Student review [#26416] for Law
at University of Coimbra - UC

FDUC lives off its history and in the comfort of its status, these are the elements that value its courses. Unfortunately, the teaching methods are archaic and there is a relationship of elitism and distance between teachers and their students. These teachers, with the rare exception, recite the same lessons for decades, trying to ensure the relevance of the books they wrote and that the students need to acquire, to religiously copy the material from their pages to the exam sheets.
Trying not to fall asleep in the face of the monotone speech of the professors, in the cold and damp rooms, sitting on the hard and old wooden benches, the students are still observed by the tourists, without awareness of space, noise or civility, encouraged by the faculty itself to wander en masse. through the corridors as if it were a zoo.
One side demands everything and the other learns to give in, the student has to try to extract the maximum value on his own, although occasionally he may be lucky enough to find truly talented and concerned teachers (which exist).
A reform and a new attitude are needed at FDUC to modernize both the methods and the approach and connection with students in order to take advantage of their valences and bring the institution into the 21st century. Somehow recovering its significance in the city and using without arrogance the responsibility and symbolism that is attributed to it as a house of knowledge and that so inspires the young people who place their trust there.