Re: $43.7K for 9 months? Getting harlarious!

Steve Stone wrote:
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Steve Stone wrote:

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I once tried to figure out the "per hour" tuition cost.
Roughly 15 hours of instruction time a week times 32 weeks
is about $90 an hour. Some of that is professor, some T/A.
Does that make you guilty about cutting class? :-)



There are some good professors worth more than $90 per hour.
However there are way too many professors that are not worth what they pay a cashier at Wal-Mart.

Nationally I've heard complaints about:

The professor is never at class on time.
They don't know the subject matter.
English is a second language for them, and they have a very poor command of English
making the course useless (from a state university in Kansas).
The professor has been there too long, burnt out, head of the department, during classes has little or no tolerance for anyone who doesn't get it
the first time, resulting in a significant percentage of the class failing the course.
The professor has a political agenda that creeps into every course they teach.

[...]

AND! I've heard of CEO's;

* relocating operations oversees and rip large rewards. In the process, they ruined communities and thousands of lives.

* driving their companies into ruins, but depart with millions of dollars worth of 'golden' parachutes. etc.

AND! I've heard of the Harvard boys, the ones facilitated the looting of Russia's wealth, transferring it to a few oligarchs, resulting in five years of depression. (I am referring to our long time ago exchange)

Do you wonder why Putin's popularity rating is at 64%, while Bush's at 37%. The answer is simple. One protects his people, the other sells them out for the benefit of a few.

So? What's your point of attacking our teachers, professors with your anecdotes? It's difficult to dumb down bright, young kids! It has never been done. Corrupt them later? Yes.



My point is too many of our educators are not worth $90 per hour.


That could be true, in some cases, it is, and must be true.
But is a former congressman worth millions per year? Obviously, he is! I let you figure it out why.

Our higher education system, in spite of its faults is still a lot cleaner than businesses or politics.
.

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