Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!ccnysci!dan
From: dan@ccnysci.UUCP (Dan Schlitt)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: posting privileges
Message-ID: <1398@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 89 14:21:19 GMT
References: <7502@pyr.gatech.EDU> <1989Mar9.160858.28018@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: dan@ccnysci.UUCP (Dan Schlitt)
Organization: City College Of New York
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In article <1989Mar9.160858.28018@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <7502@pyr.gatech.EDU> gus@pyr.gatech.EDU (gus Baird) writes:
>>Undergraduates should not be allowed to post articles.
>
>Speaking as a former undergrad :-), this is silly.  
>
>It is better, although harder, to deal with people as individuals than
>to try to lump them into groups by superficial characteristics.

Well put, Henry!, says he stroking his grey beard.  I am sometimes
rather bothered by the attitude of some faculty members toward
students in general.  At some point we need to start treating students
as adults.  We don't do it in secondary schools and now there are
many, including many students, who don't want to start in college.
One of my goals when I was teaching was to get the students to take
responsibility for their own learning.  Taking responsibility is part
of being an adult.

I try to operate on the assumption that people are responsible adults
until they prove to me that they aren't.  I think that is what Henry
means by saying that we should deal with people as individuals.
-- 
Dan Schlitt                        Manager, Science Division Computer Facility
dan@ccnysci                        City College of New York
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