On 2004-06-30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: > To be a professor and have tenure in a institution of higher learning > one usually must have a Ph.D. or at least a masters unless the school > in question sucks; That takes a min of around 8 years. > > So its a safe bet that the professor, even if he may or may not be > incompetent, has at least 8 years of education more then his students > and thus knows more even if the students don't get that yet; After all > he had to pass the tests to get his degree somehow.
Yeah, like maybe the professor learned not to top-post in lists and newsgroups .... ahem ... To be a professor, one must have more years of education, yes. That doesn't make him smart (the opposite of idiot); it doesn't necessarily mean that he knows more, either. He's almost certainly learned some stuff, but the term "ivory tower" exists for a reason. I definitely think it is wrong-headed to require expensive and proprietary tools for an intro CS class. > > On 30 Jun 2004 at 2:03, Sam Halliday wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Sam Halliday wrote: >> > > William Ballard wrote: >> > > > Oh and your professor is an idiot. >> > > >> > > thats a very brave thing to say about a PROFESSOR >> > >> > Very brave indeed.. One would think someone with at least 8 years >> > of higher learning more then you would know a thing or two more as >> > well. >> >> i don't get your meaning... >> >> cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts >> http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages >> http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ >> > > > > > -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
