re's a tendency in introductory lit. classes (and other classes) for Professors to ask for essays about facets of the story that may seem profoundly uninteresting or badly handled by the author. In this case, students soon learn that there are a few things that Professors actually want to hear, and they tend to turn them in.
I would be interested in seeing statistics on this, some sort of proof that professors somehow persecute those students with alternate views, because I'm still not buying that this behavior is infiltrating our universities. I've never had a problem opposing a teacher, and it's never damaged my grade. I have a very practiced approach, one which I (ironically) would never have been able to master if I didn't have a liberal arts background. (My husband, a computer technician and programmer, has all the finesse of a sledgehammer. I've met many like him in similar fields - people who don't know how to politely communicate dissent, and who expect that their brutally-delivered 'logic' will simply be the final word. I can't imagine the shitstorm that could follow if they, with all their genitility and grace, attempt to argue with a teacher.)
There's a lot of arrogance about this on the scientific side, but there's the same amount on the Liberal Arts side.
There's an assload of arrogance in the arts. There has to be. The first musician to come out of school as a fragile little butterfly gets smacked on the first passing windshield.
You wanted a response, so I gave you one. :) No harm, no foul.
(By the way, the comment about 'selling out' was a literal one. Two performances, each selling out the hall of 2500 seats, at ten bucks a shot. Not bad for a college concert. Too bad we don't see any of the money.)
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Date: 2005-12-03 05:27 pm (UTC)I would be interested in seeing statistics on this, some sort of proof that professors somehow persecute those students with alternate views, because I'm still not buying that this behavior is infiltrating our universities. I've never had a problem opposing a teacher, and it's never damaged my grade. I have a very practiced approach, one which I (ironically) would never have been able to master if I didn't have a liberal arts background. (My husband, a computer technician and programmer, has all the finesse of a sledgehammer. I've met many like him in similar fields - people who don't know how to politely communicate dissent, and who expect that their brutally-delivered 'logic' will simply be the final word. I can't imagine the shitstorm that could follow if they, with all their genitility and grace, attempt to argue with a teacher.)
There's a lot of arrogance about this on the scientific side, but there's the same amount on the Liberal Arts side.
There's an assload of arrogance in the arts. There has to be. The first musician to come out of school as a fragile little butterfly gets smacked on the first passing windshield.
You wanted a response, so I gave you one. :) No harm, no foul.
(By the way, the comment about 'selling out' was a literal one. Two performances, each selling out the hall of 2500 seats, at ten bucks a shot. Not bad for a college concert. Too bad we don't see any of the money.)