[lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard

[John Thornton]

Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Jul 22, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
>
>> But in my experience, that's generally what the majority of students
>> from every class have in mind when they head off to college.
>
> It's been a long time, but my memory of arriving at UVa for grad 
> school was that the products of less prestigious colleges treated the 
> faculty with deference, calling them "Professor" and "Doctor," while 
> the products of more prestigious colleges treated the faculty as 
> equals or less, preferring first names to their faces and disparaging 
> nicknames at other times. But that was 30 years ago.
>
> Doug 

I make it to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as well as 
the University proper every now and then and this still seems to hold 
true today.
Two days with most of these students and I begin wishing for an 
explosive vest to wear.

John Thornton