Originally Posted by smooth

Maybe this is one of the roots of your "problem." You [b]aren't]/b] the customer. And you are not paying for your education.

If you go to a public university, the state's taxpayers are educating you.
If you go to a private university, endowments are educating you.

Regardless of either, the federal taxpayers are subsidizing huge chunks of your education.
You pay pennies on the dollar for the overhead of your education.

Your professor's job is to train you and produce a viable employee for the job market.


That said, I don't agree with what he said and I would personally refuse to do what he requested.
But I would do so on the basis of my individual rights, not on the basis that I was a valuable customer to the university. After you make your millions in the Tech industry and give a slice of that back to your alma mater, then you get to claim you are a customer...