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This edition of an underground classic marks out new territory in college participatory education. Its purpose remains the same: to encourage students to educate themselves by calling their attention to the college experience as a whole: the personal, social, intellectual, and spiritual demands and opportunities presented by college life. In a personable and refreshingly straightforward style, the auhtors' critical discussion of academic life distinguishes between learning the institutional rules of higher education and internalizing those rules, demystifies professors and teaching assistants by discussing their institutional roles and incentives, and invites students to take responsibility for - and make the most of - their educational experiences.
Support your Local Teacher: Or the Care and Feeding of Professors
Support your Local Teacher: Or the Care and Feeding of Professors
In this chapter, we explore how the central figure in you formal college education will be the professor. It is important for you to know what professors are all about, not only so that you can choose among them and approach them with skill and wisdom but also to understand why a college education is structured in the peculiar way that it is. We address in particular the following:
- Why teaching, strangely enough, has been relegated to a peculiar position of unimportance.
- Skillful suggestions regarding the care and feeding of professors.
The central figure in your formal college education will be the professor. If you are ...
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