[lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard

[John Thornton]

W. Kiernan wrote:
> Michael Smith wrote:
> >
> > Very true. But neither group has any deference left
> > toward educational "authority" -- and a good thing, too.
>
> Come on with this lowly hired help stuff, the hired help don't ever 
> have the power to make a couple marks with a pen and bounce your ass 
> all the way out of college.  That's probably the only time in their 
> lives they have to look upward at their economic inferiors.  With the 
> possible exception of when little Richie is flat on his back in a 
> hospital bed and in walks a frowning nurse's aide with a bedpan.  But 
> alas that happens to far too few little Richies, and lasts at best, 
> maybe a week, whereas every last one of those trash go to hi-class 
> colleges and are subject to professorial discipline for at least 
> forty-four months.
>
> I suppose a prick like Duh-Byuh with his vast family influence could 
> even have overridden a pissed-off professor's "F" - come to think of 
> it, total prick as he always was, it's fifty-fifty that he did - but I 
> guess most elite students, and I'm sure all working-class students, do 
> not.
>
> yrs WDK 

This suggests you believe a professor at Harvard can actually give a 
student an "F", or even a "D".
This power exists only in theory.
In practice this power does not exist.

John Thornton