Dumping on students? I was explaining why I quit teaching. You might have a case if I stayed around and griped; I didn't. I got out. I never looked back, even when I discovered that I'd lost the three most salient reasons to stay in academia: June, July and August.
For academics who are teachers first, more power to them. It wasn't me, and I found out when I was still young enough to change careers.
Fini
Mike Hirsch
On 10/18/05, Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/18/05, Dennis Redmond <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
> > Joanna:
> >
> > > Man, I hate it when profs dump on students. Sudents are students.
> > > They're big kids, just hardly starting to disentangle themselves from
> > > their parents, while looking into the looming abyss of the 9-5.
> > >
> > > C'mon.
> >
> > Hear, hear. What's easy for we professors and teachers -- reading tons
> of
> > texts, picking apart arguments, deciphering Wall Streetese -- is damn
> > difficult for students. It's especially tough on students who don't have
> > accumulated cultural capital, e.g. are the first in their family to go
> to
> > college, female students, students of color, etc.
> >
> > -- DRR
>
> Well, I'll never forget in my senior yr. at UCSC in a great class
> taught by Wally Goldfrank, where we read both volumes of Wallerstein's
> MWS that had come out by then, along with alot of Samir Amin, Malcolm
> Caldwell and Andre Gunder Frank, in one of the final sesions, a fellow
> senior asked, "What is this Berlin Wall
> you are talking about?"
> Russell Jacoby made a quip once in Telos riffing off of
> interminable debates about the FROP
> http://www.google.com/search?q=organic+composition+of+capital+FROP
> by saying that he felt like there was a declining rate of intelligence.
> Why back in the good old days of the 70's when I was growing up,
> the kids knew Hendrix from Humble Pie. These days, the avg. 18 yr. old
> thinks Limp Bizkit invented rock.Limp Bizkit, what a rotten name for a
> band.
> --
> Michael Pugliese, middle aged fogey, gimme my Iggy Pop, Gang of Four,
> Gun Club, The Fall, Sonic Youth noise
>
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