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Ignoring everything else about this article, its context, and my personal feelings about Christian "education," I can't help but feel like the author is not ter
by bovermyer 11y ago
Ignoring everything else about this article, its context, and my personal feelings about Christian "education," I can't help but feel like the author is not terribly professional.
Universities frequently forget that their instructors and their students have entered into a business transaction with them. Students expect to receive a useful education, and instructors expect to have their research and publication subsidized, and the university expects to receive payment from the former and quality of service from the latter.
Anything that disrupts that transaction - such as university presidents getting huffy that "kids these days are too sensitive" - tends to cause a failure of the end result of all three components: education itself.
I wish more tertiary-institution administrators realized that they're operating a business, not some kind of wisdom dispensary that students should feel grateful for being allowed to attend.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoPerhaps that missive will succeed tangentially, in making students think about why they are there. That's education too.