tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post6285108818171275586..comments2024-03-27T19:55:45.373-04:00Comments on Nat Turner's Revenge: Higher LearningChristopher Chambershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981041389119024155noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-82281884775832443352008-11-02T20:23:00.000-05:002008-11-02T20:23:00.000-05:00Once a professor told me that the purpose of a mas...Once a professor told me that the purpose of a masters is to teach what you should've learned in undergrad because undergrad teaches you what you should've learned in HS because HS are pumping out unconscious illiterate drones who can't do HS level work.<BR/><BR/>Classmates have been disinterested at all levels. They don't want to stretch and grow mentally. Schools are too busy posturing about the quality of their sheep dippin plant. <BR/><BR/>I often felt like a trouble maker for asking questions and being curious. Why go through the motions if there is no learning involved? Let me swipe the credit card and go home.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-44570437000049290172008-11-02T11:18:00.000-05:002008-11-02T11:18:00.000-05:00It was a she...and no, she didn't have a clue that...It was a she...and no, she didn't have a clue that the students are the commodity. That's the point, and too many of these clowns miss it entirely.Christopher Chambershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16981041389119024155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-83288387584596280302008-11-02T00:16:00.000-04:002008-11-02T00:16:00.000-04:00I think that was an incredibly stupid statement on...I think that was an incredibly stupid statement on his part. Did he go to college in the late 60s or early 70s? Is he from the front end of the Baby Boom? Is that why he's such an idiot?<BR/><BR/>Everybody who knows the game knows that the <I>students</I> are the commodity. Entities that contribute to the institution (in return for access to the best commodities and influence over their manufacture) are the customers. Colleges compete for the top commodities (top scholars, top athletes), but it isn't competing for customers. It's packing plants bidding on the grand prize hog at the state fair.Knute Rifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02345893660115107054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-13277701548295497112008-10-31T16:05:00.000-04:002008-10-31T16:05:00.000-04:00Okay I'm not brownnosing you (as you are my profes...Okay I'm not brownnosing you (as you are my professor) but I think you're right. I think my classmates like being pandered to and unchallenged. Who doesn't?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-64026890948913311452008-10-31T14:50:00.000-04:002008-10-31T14:50:00.000-04:00There is truth in both perspectives. You have to ...There is truth in both perspectives. You have to maintain the excellence as well as the mediocrity of a higher education institute. However, you have to know your customer. Someone who wants to go to G-town would refuse to attend if they knew that their peer was a C+ student in a public schoool. Simultaneously, you have to provide the same services and aesthetic quality that one would get at a public non-HBCU (a whole other topic there).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-16088487034487111432008-10-31T11:16:00.000-04:002008-10-31T11:16:00.000-04:00However, is it also possible that corruption, mism...However, is it also possible that corruption, mismanagement and a lack of perceptable business plans and goals by college presidents in the past has necessitated this? <BR/>Indeed, many schools had turned students to invisible people, numbers, non-persons by the late 1970's. Administrators were uncaring, dorms and facilities crumbling and professors were intellectually arrogant and dismissive.Chicama Vineyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02556585419433991331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-90430617002578809892008-10-31T10:59:00.000-04:002008-10-31T10:59:00.000-04:00@anon,Couldn't the same thing be said about the de...@anon,<BR/><BR/>Couldn't the same thing be said about the democratic party?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-10563865861988759232008-10-31T10:15:00.000-04:002008-10-31T10:15:00.000-04:00I don't think politicians want that either. They w...I don't think politicians want that either. They want morons as voters. How else can you explain Joe the Plumber taking it in the ass from the people McCain and Palin truly represent, then messing with Barack? Franklu I think it is an embarassment to educated wealthy white Republicans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-18348210013223757862008-10-31T09:10:00.000-04:002008-10-31T09:10:00.000-04:00This is just my opinion.The "value" of higher educ...This is just my opinion.<BR/><BR/>The "value" of higher education began to decrease when more people began attending colleges. Now a bachelor's degree is like a high school diploma, a master's is like a bachelors, and a doctorate is like a masters. <BR/><BR/>Since more people are obtaining BAs and BSs, doesn't it make sense for universities to compete for those student and future alumni dollars? <BR/><BR/>Also, it's been my experience that employers really don't want a highly educated workforce. They need people who are trainable. Companies now seek people who don't mind not having a single independent thought for 8 hours a day, someone's whose personal intellectual interests don't conflict or compete with those of their jobs, someone who doesn't question management.<BR/><BR/>Basically, companies want drones and that's what universities are producing. Why shouldn't they turn a profit?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-19297089935870186502008-10-31T06:33:00.000-04:002008-10-31T06:33:00.000-04:00One of my adjunct professors said for the effort s...One of my adjunct professors said for the effort she put in, for what she was paid (no benefits either), she could as well work at Walmart. <BR/><BR/>The tuition at his school was almost on par with the Ivy League schools. I'm thinking whose money are they saving. I had already lost one good professor, because they downgraded his position. <BR/><BR/>Online is cheap for the school and more expensive for the student. Basically the professor is like a moderator of an online forum. You have to teach yourself. At least that was the case with the one online course that I dropped as soon as class opened up on campus.Hathorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657524404057819428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-65861195424569333412008-10-30T19:08:00.000-04:002008-10-30T19:08:00.000-04:00The technology and the texting generation will onl...The technology and the texting generation will only make things worse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com