re: #89 ClaudeMonet

Obdicut, obviously your parents are a welcome exception. In my perfect world, every person with a college education would be required to spend at least one year out of each ten in the field, working with real people.

I assume you mean most people involved in college education, rather than with a college education.

I still have no fucking clue what you’re going on about.

First of all: Most scientific academics do work ‘in the field’. So in reference to our losing edge in science and engineering, your comment makes no sense.

Second of all: Teaching classes is extremely hard. It’s very, very hard work. The students are ‘real people’ Remember that most professors aren’t working at Harvard and Yale. Most are working at state schools, community colleges, and the like, dealing with a continually under-educated group of incoming students.

I have no idea why you think that teaching is somehow not part of the real world. It’s something I hear a lot, and it never ceases to make me angry.

How about everyone tries to go teach a class for a year, instead of those nasty intellectuals being forced to work ‘in the field’?