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Skriven 2014-03-29 15:06:36 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 11400 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: different standards 379
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 26 Mar 14  22:14:00 <=-

 NB>> Credentials are often somewhat laughable
 ML> I know a guy who got a job at a certain university on the
 ML> strength of a Ph.D. Well, times got tough, and all the
 ML> full-time faculty were asked to do other things, such as
 ML> teaching Freshman Comp, which this guy refused to do,
 ML> whereupon some people, fed up with him, researched his
 ML> background and discovered he didn't have a Ph.D at all.
 ML> His defense: "well, I have two Master'ses," so some
 ML> obnoxious busybody dug around and discovered that that
 ML> claim was also false - in fact, he had about as much
 ML> graduate school as I did, with the same result. So he
 ML> got bounced altogether, but nobody would have stirred up
 ML> the mess if he hadn't refused to do the scut work that
 ML> his coworkers sucked it up and did.

He was too full of himself for his own good...  And teaching freshmen
isn't necessarily scut work anyway... probably requires more skill (if
not more knowledge) than teaching the higher classes...  Daddy was never
too proud to teach the beginning Physics classes, especially for the
majors... he both enjoyed the teaching, and also was able to scope out
the students at the beginning... And he'd had a doctorate from the
beginning of his teaching career...  but then he was also a true
teacher...  ;)

 NB>> It makes a little more sense to require someone to get some sort of
 NB>> a teacher's certificate (or degree) in order to teach... although
 NB>> even that is less useful than actual teaching abilities... ;)
 ML> I don't know what the proper criteria should be. Someone
 ML> recently made the commonsense suggestion that teachers
 ML> should be teachers and academics should be academics,
 ML> and they should be equals. I'm not sure that anyone is
 ML> going to act on that anytime soon.

One needs a few people like my father, who were easily both, to bridge
the gap, perhaps...  I suspect that it was more common a few generations
or so ago... specialization hasn't helped a lot of fields...  ;0

ttyl          neb

... Seriously, did you just equate chocolate to a hit of heroin?
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