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From: jsb@actnyc.UUCP (The Invisible Man)
Newsgroups: sci.math,comp.edu,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Public Education is a Fraud
Summary: You can't cheat an honest man.
Message-ID: <1124@actnyc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 88 16:35:35 GMT
References: <7.UUL1.3#913@acw.UUCP> <4463@sfsup.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsb@actnyc.UUCP (The Invisible Man)
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)In article <7.UUL1.3#913@acw.UUCP> scott@acw.UUCP (Scott Guthery) writes:
):: Teachers succeed without teaching and students succeed without learning.  
):: Is there really any question why there's no education going on in our 
):: education system?
):: 
):: A teacher's only use for students to get money out of taxpayers.  The
):: more money they get, the less they teach.  Once they get tenure or graduate
):: into administration, they do nothing useful at all.  $300 billion/year we 
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In article <4463@sfsup.UUCP> dwd@/guestc/dwdUUCP (45421-D.W.Dougherty) writes:
)I believe that load and fanatic applause is appropriate here!!

Clearly, writing skills are poorly taught. ;-)

The fact is that teaching is not valued; at least not in the USofA.  The day
I quit teaching to become a computer consultant I doubled my salary.  I've
since doubled it again.  The ones who remain behind tend to be those who
can't make it in the real world.  I'm speaking here of institutions geared
for teaching.  At those geared for research, teaching is often a chore 
delegated to those without political pull or seniority to avoid it.  Ability
to teach rarely enters into the equation.  I am, of course, speaking in 
generalities.  There are numerous exceptions.  The point is that we get what
we pay for.  The 'fraud' is being perpetrated on ourselves.  As W.C. Fields
said, "You can't cheat an honest man."

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    resemble the real world."
			jim (uunet!actnyc!jsb)