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I so disagree with this service model of education, treating it like a fast food restaraunt...this is the process that leads to grade inflation and the declining standards that everyone complains about! For every student like Greg that desires a more rigourous education, there are 8 that would be content to sleep through every class and have the professor give them little note sheets to memorize and regurgitate at test time. That service model is just not viable. [/B]
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I don't think he's pushing for lackadaisical standards, but rather for a return on his investment.
If I go to the steakhouse and pay $18 for a steak then I expect the $18 steak, not the $4.99 special they hawk up at lunch. I pay for college, I expect my college professors to know what they're talking about and not spew an unending line of uneducated estimations. If I didn't expect this standard, why spend thousands of dollars going to college, when I can learn just as much from $20 book at the bookstore? Sure I won't get the nice diploma, but I'd have learned more and isn't the purpose of college to learn? to better oneself through knowledge? The diploma and subsequent payraise is secondary.