[BC] Re: Engineering school teachers

[Milton R. Holladay Jr.]

The simple fact is that colleges have _proffessors_, not teachers, though a
majority, incidentally, can teach--some, wonderfully. But a fair number of
them fit the old adage that "those that can't _do_, teach; those that can't
teach, become critics."  A modest number are brilliant idiots who couldn't
pour piss out of a boot with directions on the heel, but who teach
acceptably; some are eccentrics who may or may not be suited to teach; a few
are misfits that probably should not be in contact with society at all, much
less teaching ....................
I suspect that a majority of them have had little or no teacher training
whatsoever.
M
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Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 5:55 PM
Subject: [BC] Re: Engineering school teachers


> In a message dated 10/1/05 4:24:00 PM Central Daylight Time,
> broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:
>
> << > Dunno about that...don't recall that the bottom 50% got weeded out
the
>  > 1st semester, but I'd say that roughly half the class did not return
for
>  > the 2nd year of classes.  I thought I came away with a pretty good
>  > education.
>
>     It seems to me, he FAILED TO TEACH half of the people that signed up
>  to learn from him/her.  No?
>     I think the school would be BETTER if they had a teacher/s that could
>  teach ALL of the students that signed up (and paid) to learn.  No?
>
>     If I FAILED to fix half of everything that breaks at work,
>  I wouldn't have lasted a month.
>  -- 
>      Ron
>   >>
>
> Ron:
>
>
> I do not agree that the teacher failed to teach half the class. Many
times,
> students enter a major not knowing if they are cut out for engineering, in
this
> case. There is a high failure rate early on for a lot of reasons. This is
> entirely different from the example you gave about fixing half of what
breaks.
> That difference is, you are in a line of work that you are cut out for and
you
> know that when you walk into a problem. This is not a fair comparison.
>
> There are people that have no business in the teaching profession.
However,
> this fact does not mean that when little Johnny fails ELE-101 that the
teacher
> failed to teach him. Maybe the teacher did fail, but then maybe little
Johnny
> did not apply himself. Engineering classes require a lot of work and
effort
> and there are many people out there that do not want to do what it takes.
>
> Jeff Glass, BSEE CSRE
> WNIU WNIJ