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F.O.A.D.

On 3/24/13 10:05 AM, Califbill wrote:
"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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On 3/24/13 12:47 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:27:49 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 3/23/13 11:09 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:23:37 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Surely you are not saying that teachers are bereft of "real life
experience."

Yes I am. Most people in academia went to school when they were five
and never left, retiring there sixty years later. It is one of the
worst examples of vertical integration in the world.

You mean, like being a physician?

We're friends with two of my wife's professors from grad school, two
aging ladies in their 80s now who have done more and seen more than you
or I have. For 40 years, they've run a series of orphanages in China and
other countries in that area of the world, mostly for "unwanted" girl
babies and toddlers, and those operations required frequent trips abroad
and sometimes nasty confrontations with the various governments,
including that of Red China. They recently retired as Professors
Emeritus. Oh, they're nuns. How do your real life experiences compare?

Another of my friends, a fellow who sadly recently died, was on the
faculty of a major university in the MidWest and also was deeply
involved in Polish efforts to remove the communist government there, and
in similar anti-dictatorship movements in other parts of the country,
such as El Salvador. He was shot several times and imprisoned twice
aboard. How do your real life experiences compare to my university
buddy?

You're just anti-academia.

Those are very unusual educators.

My daughter's father in law agrees with me and he was a professor for
30 years (recently retired) I can give you his name offline, you may
have some mutual acquaintances.
He is the one that told me they do not teach you job skills.

Your sample size was too small to reach any conclusions.

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I will add my step father. College professor / teacher from when he
graduated UCB and Cornell. He could not have held a real job.

Teaching isn't a real job? Absurd.