Some professors are this cynical and arrogant.
I don’t think many are; but there are enough out there to have inspired the satire.
Some professors are this cynical and arrogant.
I don’t think many are; but there are enough out there to have inspired the satire.
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January 29th, 2013 at 11:33AM
Much as I’m sure we can all chuckle and perhaps sympathize with this sort of thing, the point at which you begin to despise your students is the point at which you need to quit teaching.
January 29th, 2013 at 12:50PM
Alan: I agree.
January 30th, 2013 at 9:01AM
That piece is, in many ways, as much about the students and their “co-complicity” in the cynicism. The more that education is just seen as an arbitrary set of obstacles put between a young aspirant and a credential, the more that this kind of teacher-student relation is less a satire and more a description.
January 30th, 2013 at 9:29AM
Timothy: Absolutely. But professors have far more power than students to set the classroom stage.