1. You take four years to get a B.A. and get the highest grades and study for the GRE so that you can…
2. …be admitted into an MA program that takes about two years of research and usually involves you teaching in order to fund your degree program.
3….so that you can continue on to the Ph.D. program which takes four to five years.
4. Should you be lucky enough to land a job at a university, you are required to:
5…teach at least two courses.
6. ….be part of an advisory committee for graduate students working on a thesis.
7. ….put together lesson plans and grade papers.
8. …..maintain office hours for helping your students.
9. …….publish regularly, which takes extensive research and hard work.
10………present regularly at conferences.
11. …….peer review the work of other academics.
So, where does the belief that all professors are a bunch of Birkenstock-wearing hippies who never work and promote their hate-America agenda come from, or does it come from people who view academia of any sort as anathema?
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facts mean nothing to them
many right wingers never went to college and so they don’t know
Does anyone else find it ironic that the average “hard working conservative” has no problem collecting his government soc. security check come 65?
Its from people who dont understand that teaching takes effort. they probably had really shitty teachers in school, and thus assume all teachers are that way. i had some great teachers and some awful teachers, so i assume all teachers are somewhere between great and shitty.
It suits people to make crass generalisations. With regard to college professors etc. it suits the neo-conservative’s anti-intellectual mindset. If you operate from a position of alleged ‘common sense’, then anything else is elitist. It’s a very dangerous notion actually, as education is one of the most important aspects of the human experience. But that sounds too hi-falutin’, so it must be wrong.
I guess Edmund Burke and Adam Smith etc. were just wrong too.
by default, if you are republican, you fear knowledge
Do you really have to ask?
They’re ignorant. That’s the bottom line.
I work my butt off and I haven’t even got a professorship yet, and I know when that day finally comes (if it comes), I will be working round the clock to educate a bunch of kids that are half-listening. It’s tough work.
Birkenstock-wearing hippies. . . . . . just says it all
. . . . . . just says it all
that is with no disrespect – for I have met many a learned man without an ounce of logical sense