bearophile wrote:
grauzone:
To add: - How much you pay your Professor At least that's what I
heard about Italian universities.
Yes, in the some universities of the south (and probably some in the
center) this happens now and then. But it's much less common in
natural sciences (because you have to know what you have studied in
past courses to understand the following ones). And it's almost
unheard of in my university. And about 60-70% of the teachers are
good enough. Students of the south that want a good university
sometimes go to the center or north. Then there are things like CEPU
that help students face exams, and despite being legal they produce
nothing good, just more ignorant people.
That has to do with the overall corruption in the region so the
information content is low. Going to a crappy school in an overall
corrupt region kind of sets up the stage nicely :o).
If anything, the university will be a local moral maximum. I went to
university in a corrupt country and at a corrupt historical time.
However, professors had integrity. Our class of 30 bought a bottle of
whiskey for one who was known to need some greasing, but that was all. I
learned there about Banach spaces and by golly if I'd forgotten all
about them I couldn't have proved a quintessential theorem in my
dissertation 19 years later.
Andrei
