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14 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Maher: Chris Christie... · 0 replies · +1 points

Despite the politics of this, Christie is going to die young if he doesn't get his weight under serious control. If he waits until he's 50 to run, he'll be dead. Imagine all the jokes that the all the comedians in all the world will make of our President Christie.

15 years ago @ Professors Strike Back... - He knows who you are, ... · 0 replies · +2 points

First of all, what kind of name is "Doris"? Who, are you, Grover Cleveland's niece? Second, your first sentence is backward. And that thing that follows it is an abomination. The last time you saw a professor was back in aught seven at Salem Normal School, if ever? You can't "belive" it? I can't "belive" it either!

15 years ago @ Professors Strike Back... - Mr. Churchill Says: Yo... · 0 replies · +2 points

Also sprach Cameron, "Prologue." That's right, Cam: Thanks to you, I'm employed. Let's give a round of "thank yous" to all those things and people that help employ us. Thank you, cancer, for keeping those oncologists going. Thank you, criminals, for allowing the police to get taxpayers' money. Thank you, arsonists, for making that Volunteer Fire Department have something to do now and then. Thank you, Bin Laden, for helping to keep our military forces strong. Etc.

The only "knowledge of George Washington" that we should care about is the knowledge of seeing his face on a $1.00-note and a $0.25 piece. Am I right or am I right?

Cameron, you must have been denied cookies in kindergarten, so you've turned to a life of crime, and are now trolling the Internet from some microcephalic prison. You're living in an asylum for idiots. But you probably still do have the right to vote, and I'm sure--this being America and all--you're using it.

15 years ago @ Professors Strike Back... - Mr. Churchill Says: Yo... · 5 replies · -1 points

Learning at home, by yourself, is a valuable task and it has a name. It's called "homework." You're probably familiar with it from elementary school. You might actually have studied for a test once in high school. In college, you're expected to both teach yourself and do homework _and_ be present for the lectures.

And where can I buy those 1000 units of information? I never knew that education was quantifiable. After last semester, are you 346 more knowledgeable than you were before? Does that make you now 6.223% smarter than you were?

You're deluding yourself about the nature of education. Come see me in 25 years. We'll talk.

Or are you an engineering student?

15 years ago @ Smart Journalism. Real... - With Music, Ignorance ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Music professors have always known this, despite what they are called upon to do at the basic level of the music appreciation class (i.e., educate the musically illiterate). When I decided to make my hobby (music) my life, I discovered somewhat to my amazement that I lost experiential aspects of my hobby.

Nevertheless, for me and for many, many others whom I have taught, the pleasure (plaisir) of "knowing" can far exceed the joy (jouissance) of the immediate, transcendent, flow experience. And this is not to say that I (or you) can't have both, simultaneously, when listening to a piece by Bach or Beethoven that has been analyzed to death. I would say that at the higher levels of performance, after a work is thoroughly learned and analyzed, flow is recaptured.

15 years ago @ Professors Strike Back... - Mr. Churchill Says: Yo... · 0 replies · +1 points

Vetlady, we thank you and all vets for your service to the country. Now . . . let's get down to business:

Students are not employees; they're products in the sense that an aspiring Navy Seal in N.S. school has to emerge brave, brilliant, strong and skilled. If he's not, then he's toast. Think "products" in the sense of a quality car that is produced by a system, not as a commodity.

Next: The office of Student Services handles all issues with learning disabilities and handicaps or any personal matters. Students go there, get offical assessment, are given letters, and show them to the profs. Profs are not allowed to "take a student's word for it." Student Services will help you get your valid letter. When you've been in the business for over 20 years, you see a lot of lying students. That's the reality.

15 years ago @ Professors Strike Back... - Good looking professor... · 0 replies · +1 points

I provide the converse of what many students have said:

Venus, I wish you were a student at my college. I would overtally you into any of my courses and waive all prereqs to have you study with me. You rock!

15 years ago @ Professors Strike Back... - Mr. Churchill Says: Yo... · 0 replies · +7 points

Conclusion: Students who do not attend classes regularly should attend non-terrestrial schools, where one is not forced to hear logically formulated oral statements for hours on end. Lorraine, thank you for that last bit of evidence in support of college-classroom attendence. Q.E.D.

students : online colleges :: a good breakfast : a human

15 years ago @ Professors Strike Back... - Mr. Churchill Says: Yo... · 0 replies · +5 points

College is different. Students are patients. As patients, they agree to abide by the advice of their physicians and therapists, which does include taking prescription medication, etc. There are, of course, crappy doctors who would rather be on the links. That does not excuse them of their own responsibilities.

Stay away from the fats and sugars. Exercise every day. Moderate your alcohol intake. Without following our advice, you will not get better.

America's obesity and general poor health is analogous to America's poor intellectual health.

15 years ago @ Professors Strike Back... - Save it for your parents · 0 replies · +1 points

John ... John ... John. Chill. This is the Internet; this is not real life. Dee is not a professor here. She's a poster, a commenter, maybe a troll like me. I'm sure she doesn't denigrate students in real life, you know? And when (if) you become a professor, you'll see students who aren't as serious as you, who might expect their education handed to them in return for cash. I wonder how that will make you feel.

The thing about Dee, and you, and me is that we are good students. We know what it's like to study. We appreciate good teaching and clear reasoning. You will see that most students don't think the way we do. And one day you'll be so angry at those "C" students who have this "gimme" attitude that you'll post a few vile, derogatory statements about students on some blog just to let off steam.

You seem to be new to this Internet phenomenon. I thought your name really was "John." Silly me! Signed, your pal ... Ramón ;-) .

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