Of course you like it. It "minimizes" your customer base. What a lot of hooey; you are shooting yourselves in the foot. Students will not put up much longer with the modern professor's arrogance. You will find out that empty classrooms will result in fewer full time jobs.
Ha, right. Yes, it's professors' arrogance that will lead to fewer full-time positions, because there are just SO MANY full-time/TT positions now. You're hilarious, Futzmonster.
Students are not my customers. They are my produce -- not product, produce. Anyone who gardens knows that proper care doesn't always lead to good results.
Ha! Prof's arrogance? We come from the "you're not special generation" and therefore do NOT think we will get things handed to us. I had to bust my ass for my degree so since I know the answers to the questions being asked you will have to pay to learn it and be polite while doing it!
Ha! Prof's arrogance? We come from the "you're not special generation" and therefore do NOT think we will get things handed to us. I had to bust my ass for my degree so since I know the answers to the questions being asked you will have to pay to learn it and be polite while doing it!
He seems to be that rare thing: a no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is teacher whom students (and their parents) genuinely like. And yes, the speech comes across as gentler and kinder on video than in writing (though the statistics, especially the Uggs count, do give some sense of the tone even in the written form). I loved the part about service projects becoming more about the c.v. item than the service; that's sadly all too true. And while "you'll be happiest if you forget about trying to be happy and work for the common good" isn't quite "ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country,"* it's not a bad update for the entitled generation. There, too, he seems to have done a good job of saying what needs to be said while still finding a way to speak their language.
It's interesting how many people (including our friend above) are inclined to see this as him attacking or excoriating the students. At most it's a gentle, humorous scolding, genuinely intended to increase the wellbeing both of the students themselves and of those they will encounter in their future lives.
*What in the world would students today make of that exhortation, I wonder? It sounds so incredibly alien, as does the sense of duty with which Elizabeth II took up the role of queen at 25; I'm hardly pro-monarchy, nor do I feel she's always used her power wisely, but I do admire her firm embrace of the principle that with great privilege comes great responsibility. We need to genuinely move back in that direction -- the spirit of the Peace Corps, not the one-week service trip.
This was much more good-spirited than I had imagined. Bravura performance.
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DeleteIndeed. When I read them, I heard H.L. Mencken, rather than Mark Twain.
DeleteOf course you like it. It "minimizes" your customer base. What a lot of hooey; you are shooting yourselves in the foot. Students will not put up much longer with the modern professor's arrogance. You will find out that empty classrooms will result in fewer full time jobs.
ReplyDeleteHa, right. Yes, it's professors' arrogance that will lead to fewer full-time positions, because there are just SO MANY full-time/TT positions now. You're hilarious, Futzmonster.
DeleteWe don't share a foot.
Delete"Minimizes the customer base"?
DeleteStudents are not my customers. They are my produce -- not product, produce. Anyone who gardens knows that proper care doesn't always lead to good results.
Introvert.prof, that is the perfect metaphor. thank you.
Delete"You will find out that empty classrooms will result in fewer full time jobs."
ReplyDeleteDude, it's overstuffed classrooms that have resulted in fewer jobs (or really, have been the result of cuts in full-time jobs). Can you not do math?
Students aren't my customers. Thank you, drive through.
ReplyDeleteHa! Prof's arrogance? We come from the "you're not special generation" and therefore do NOT think we will get things handed to us. I had to bust my ass for my degree so since I know the answers to the questions being asked you will have to pay to learn it and be polite while doing it!
ReplyDeleteHa! Prof's arrogance? We come from the "you're not special generation" and therefore do NOT think we will get things handed to us. I had to bust my ass for my degree so since I know the answers to the questions being asked you will have to pay to learn it and be polite while doing it!
ReplyDeleteI would have just fired my old chopped AK into the audience while screaming "YOU CREATED THESE LITTLE MONSTERS YOU BASTAAAAARDS!!!!!!!!"
ReplyDeleteHe seems to be that rare thing: a no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is teacher whom students (and their parents) genuinely like. And yes, the speech comes across as gentler and kinder on video than in writing (though the statistics, especially the Uggs count, do give some sense of the tone even in the written form). I loved the part about service projects becoming more about the c.v. item than the service; that's sadly all too true. And while "you'll be happiest if you forget about trying to be happy and work for the common good" isn't quite "ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country,"* it's not a bad update for the entitled generation. There, too, he seems to have done a good job of saying what needs to be said while still finding a way to speak their language.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting how many people (including our friend above) are inclined to see this as him attacking or excoriating the students. At most it's a gentle, humorous scolding, genuinely intended to increase the wellbeing both of the students themselves and of those they will encounter in their future lives.
*What in the world would students today make of that exhortation, I wonder? It sounds so incredibly alien, as does the sense of duty with which Elizabeth II took up the role of queen at 25; I'm hardly pro-monarchy, nor do I feel she's always used her power wisely, but I do admire her firm embrace of the principle that with great privilege comes great responsibility. We need to genuinely move back in that direction -- the spirit of the Peace Corps, not the one-week service trip.
This was an excellent speech - I wonder how many of the people in the audience took it away with them.
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