Posted on 12/21/2015 2:26:36 AM PST by servo1969
Back in college I had a few professors ignore the official syllabus and talk about whatever the hell they felt like. I signed up for a class on the USSR. The professor, an admitted Marxist, found the state of the USSR depressing, so he spent the semester talking about Red China.
LOL! Well played.
The students would be plural, the individual’s syllabus would be singular.
There is one thing guaranteed to happen to you in such a scenario: You will get fired.
I recall getting my first job in 1982. I was so excited about it that I did not realize I had health insurance. Until the new year came and I “received” my new card. We were growing so fast that our orientation system had not been instituted yet. You should have seen my face years later when I left the company and received a lump sum payout for my “pension.” (Not a 401k)
Orientation is a nice thing. They were not so hot on it in 1982. There were several things I did not know about. I never asked because I was, as I wrote, so damned happy to get a job.
Bumping for later
doesn’t matter...... don’t screw with a tough guy is a good lesson to learn
I have students that are drivers for the volunteer ambulance corp and others who are members of the volunteer fire department. When their phones go off, they have an automatic pass to get up from their seats and rush to the fire station (even if they are taking an exam).
I have noticed that too! It may be due to excessive drinking the night before.
Imagine that.
Mike alssumes his students csn read?!
Adams tends to dilute the effectiveness of his message with something of a crude, tough-guy act.
Professors, like anybody, tend to get the respect that their own behavior merits.
Bear in mind he’s dealing with young adults who are accustomed to being pampered and spoon fed. One of my best teachers (in Junior High) had us take a math test on the first day of the second semester. The next day he gave us the results along with a dressing down.
He commented about how one girl had laughed loudly in the hall about flunking a class during the first semester. He asked her if she was proud of it.
He pointed out where I had written “Don’t Know” on a section of my paper. I responded that I hadn’t been taught the material. He asked what I intended to do about it. I didn’t expect that and it made me realize learning was my responsibility.
Then he explained we were no longer little elementary school children and we were becoming young ladies and gentlemen. He talked about our behavior and manner of dress. He also pointed out that we needed to bathe more often and use deodorant and perhaps some perfume/cologne because we had reached the age where our company could be unpleasant if we failed to follow basic rules of hygiene on a regular basis.
He told us what we needed to hear; although, a lot of us didn’t enjoy hearing it. Tough teachers challenge their students and push them to reach for higher results.
Um...no. Not they're not. The idea is downright creepy and weird.
I suppose that’s not the end of the world ... as long as he tested you on the material about Red China.
Something similar happened to me later in the 80s. When I left the company, I had them invest my small pension value in a fixed fund at a then-low rate of 4%. Now that’s a really good rate!
Thanks for the smile.
I had a professor like this - and he taught National Security Counterintelligence, thankfully, a useful course.
“”Whose references? “”
Correct - I would think someone who is going to criticize someone else’s writing would pay a little more attention to their own......
I ‘d like my professor to use proper grammar, i.e. the proper plural of syllabus.
If we’re going to carp about the grammatical usage of a word taken directly from Latin, we may as well require the entire nominal declension be correct; to wit, there are four renderings of the plural, syllabi, syllaborum, syllabos, and syllabis, if we assume the word to be in the second declension, as its ending would suggest...
Actually the etymology of the Latin word is uncertain, and thus the OED recognizes either syllabi or syllabuses as proper English pluralization...
I would think someone who is going to criticize someone else’s writing would pay a little more attention to their own......
Actually, that should read ‘his or her own’, as it refers to ‘someone’...
When he couldn't download the template, he sent me an email and asked what I was going to do about it.
I gave him a zero.
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