Minority or not, those who went to school learned to read.
How many professors have you known, and how do you know how many hours they work? I know some lazy professors and some that work 70 hours a week. Of course, I wouldn’t want to rely on my own experience to estimate the work ethic of the average professor.
I’m late to this thread, but dang that was funny. No professor I ever knew worked 40 hours a week.
A few, from my college days, and the guy living across the street from me. Noway the guys I knew or had contact with ever worked 40 hours a week. But here’s a test for ya. Pick out college in your area, find a professor, and call his office at 8am and 4 pm and see how many times he picks up the phone. It was my experience, unless you wore short skirts (just kidding) finding one in his office was next to impossible. Easier to make a appt with a brain surgeon.
Now, the problem is that you are generalizing from a convenience sample. Since nobody you know has worked 40 hours, therefore nobody must be working 40 hours.
So, if the professor is not in his office, that means he is not working? What if he is working at home, or in the library? Also, many professors teach outside of the normal workday. For example, I sometimes have classes that go to 10 pm at night. You can bet on those days that I am not in the office at 8 am. Although, I have never had a student who had a problem getting an appointment with me.
I have known several professors who have worked 70 hours a week and longer. I have worked in places where people came into the office on Saturday and Sunday. If they wanted to get tenure, they had to put a lot of time and effort in. And even the tenured professors kept up the strong work ethic.
No, not at all. Simply stating a fact. Students who did go to school 2000 years ago were likely only concerned with going to school, because most of them would have been from aristocratic families.
From a mental standpoint, the children of the rich would have been basically a cross-section of the population. But they did learn to read and do math. They also routinely learned foreign languages – every educated Roman, for example, could speak, read and write Greek.
And education is the number one social justice requirement in this country. Not until every child gets a first-class education can we significantly reduce poverty.
So if you had a 10pm class on Thursday, a guy can forget a 8am meeting with you on Friday? My point exactly. Not gonna work more then 40 hours. Now try telling that to a mid level boss, “I can’t make a 8am staff meeting, because I’ll be working late the night before.” He’ll tell ya to be there or be square. The difference in academia and the Real World.
Reminds me of a company lawyer I knew – I had to get him to look over some papers and somehow he couldn’t get around to it. Finally someone explained it to me, “Remember, you’re dealing with a guy who has a license to steal – and has to get a 9 to 5 job to make a living.”
All right, great, let’s bash profs now. Almost like bashing business owners. We could say “all business owners are greedy.” But that’s not true, now is it? We could say “All business owners are selfish,” but that’s not true, is it? The truth is there are good ones and bad ones.Reminds me of a company lawyer I knew – I had to get him to look over some papers and somehow he couldn’t get around to it. Finally someone explained it to me, “Remember, you’re dealing with a guy who has a license to steal – and has to get a 9 to 5 job to make a living.”
Did you notice this thread is all about bashing people – specifically CEOs?
How many people in the real world reglarly work till 10 pm on Thursday and are then are regularly expected to be at work the next morning at 8 am? While I am sure there are some that might do it, my guess is that they are a very tiny minority of people. If someone has the night shift, they are not usually asked to work the day shift as well.
You make some great points. It looks to me like people just don’t understand your industry well enough to make rational decisions for it… Gee wonder where else we can apply that maxim?
Really? Doin what? Surfin the web at HOME, hangin out at the library? (ok, ok just kiddin)I’m glad you’re very sure the OP is an academic of some sort–probably just a lazy professor, and not a forty-five to fifty-five hour a week manager at a small business.
Didn’t say the OP was academic only the idea was. Are ALL college professors lazy? No, but c’mon I’ve been around 52 years, and the average, tenured professor teaching the subject, is NOT boardroom material. We all know it, why is it wrong to say it?
.... ready?????Why would that be a bad thing? After all, lawyers create nothing new in the economy, they just redistribute what others have earned.