Anecdotal data is not something upon which one ought to build a foundation for the future.
That said, I certainly can’t disagree with his main premise .. that there are some serious deficiencies in our educational system.
Footnote: I thought he was going to say that the aliens would say that education is designed to make business men .. or to prepare people to work in some sort of business / middle management kind of job. It would be clear to aliens that we keep score by awarding points (money). To assert that the aliens would think that professors are at the top of the heap is laughable. Except at top research academies (or in fields like business), college and university faculty are not at the top of the salary heap.
Check it out for yourselves (this link is for the University System of Georgia):
Anecdotal data is not something upon which one ought to build a foundation for the future.
That said, I certainly can’t disagree with his main premise .. that there are some serious deficiencies in our educational system.
Footnote: I thought he was going to say that the aliens would say that education is designed to make business men .. or to prepare people to work in some sort of business / middle management kind of job. It would be clear to aliens that we keep score by awarding points (money). To assert that the aliens would think that professors are at the top of the heap is laughable. Except at top research academies (or in fields like business), college and university faculty are not at the top of the salary heap.
Check it out for yourselves (this link is for the University System of Georgia):
Wow. I looked up the salaries at my old school and it’s pretty staggering. Professors — especially good ones like you — should make much more. It shows you how shitty our priorities are.
http://dmiessler.com Daniel Miessler
Wow. I looked up the salaries at my old school and it’s pretty staggering. Professors — especially good ones like you — should make much more. It shows you how shitty our priorities are.
Carl M
The thing is .. the vast majority of professors are at institutions that focus on education. These professors are teachers and strive to help the next generation(s) discover knowledge. They don’t live in their heads (as the speaker so disparagingly put it), communication is at their core, and they’re (obviously) not in it for the money.
Carl M
The thing is .. the vast majority of professors are at institutions that focus on education. These professors are teachers and strive to help the next generation(s) discover knowledge. They don’t live in their heads (as the speaker so disparagingly put it), communication is at their core, and they’re (obviously) not in it for the money.
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