Nicholas Twigg,
I like your brand of naivete! Could you please direct
me to a half dozen scholarly articles that represent
YOUR kind of naivete? It could help me with mine.
Edryce
--- Charles Wankel <
wankelc@optonline.net> wrote:
> From: Nicholas W. Twigg
> [mailto:
twiggnw@hal.lamar.edu]
>
> In response to the comment about professors as
> TEACHERS:
>
> > I agree that professors should "teach". Maybe I am
> being really naive
> > here, but I believe that at the university level
> (where we have
> > professors. High schools have teachers) the
> professor should have
> > something to "profess." An area of expertise and
> knowledge that goes
> > beyond some textbook. I believe that a good
> measure of that expertise
> > can be obtained from what professors have to say
> about their area of
> > knowledge. To insure that the university professor
> is not passing on
> > old, outdated, anecdotal, and wrong information, a
> review of the
> > professor's thoughts and studies by a group of
> others qualified to
> > understand the ideas is necessary. Published
> articles in scholarly
> > journals meet this critieria.
>
> Just a thought from a naive professor at a
> university.
>
> Nick
>
twiggnw@hal.lamar.edu
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