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> Some people were raised in cultures where tardiness is tolerated. Some European countries have the academic quarter[1] which basically means that it's ok to

> Some people were raised in cultures where tardiness is tolerated. Some European countries have the academic quarter[1] which basically means that it's ok to be 15 minutes late. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_quarter_%28class_timing%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_quarter_%28class_timin...

kjksf 16y ago
Academic quarter is for teachers, not students. It's not ok for students to be late to class even 1 minute. 15 minutes is the amount of time that students must wait for a teacher to arrive before they can assume that a class has been cancelled and disband. This is not about tolerating tardiness but a rule that clarifies what happens when a teacher doesn't arrive to teach the class in a timely manner. It's also not something that happens often. It's a rule for contingency planning and not a rule to promote a standard of teacher tardiness. At least in Poland.
- ardit33 16y ago
  maybe he ment the 'Mediterranean Time'. Lets meet at 2, usually means around 2:10 2:15, or whatever. This will be done in 30 mins, means 45, 1hr, etc. Just the nature of the cultures, where they take it chill, drink a lot of coffee, and never rush for things, work to live, not live to work. Maybe that's why they have lower GDPs compared to the northern ones.
  - maw 16y ago
    Where I live (not along the Mediterranean) a dinner invitation for 8 means people starting to arrive at 9:45. An appointment with the dentist, half an hour away, at 11 means leaving at 11:05. To say more is to be horribly politically incorrect.
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- ciupicri 16y ago
  I was almost sure that I should have mentioned "at least in Romania". Here, students joke about this when they're late, although it's still not a rule, it's more like a (bad) custom.
- zalew 16y ago
  Also academic quarter is not 15 minutes, it's 15 minutes divided by year of study ;) At least i Poland :)
- relix 16y ago
  It's exactly the same in Belgium, and in my 6 years of going to university it happened exactly once. It was very helpful to decide that we should no longer wait and could assume the lesson was cancelled, instead of waiting around for an hour and a quarter not sure if the professor was coming or not.

kjksf 16y ago

Academic quarter is for teachers, not students. It's not ok for students to be late to class even 1 minute. 15 minutes is the amount of time that students must wait for a teacher to arrive before they can assume that a class has been cancelled and disband. This is not about tolerating tardiness but a rule that clarifies what happens when a teacher doesn't arrive to teach the class in a timely manner. It's also not something that happens often. It's a rule for contingency planning and not a rule to promote a standard of teacher tardiness. At least in Poland.

ardit33 16y ago
maybe he ment the 'Mediterranean Time'. Lets meet at 2, usually means around 2:10 2:15, or whatever. This will be done in 30 mins, means 45, 1hr, etc. Just the nature of the cultures, where they take it chill, drink a lot of coffee, and never rush for things, work to live, not live to work. Maybe that's why they have lower GDPs compared to the northern ones.
- maw 16y ago
  Where I live (not along the Mediterranean) a dinner invitation for 8 means people starting to arrive at 9:45. An appointment with the dentist, half an hour away, at 11 means leaving at 11:05. To say more is to be horribly politically incorrect.
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ciupicri 16y ago
I was almost sure that I should have mentioned "at least in Romania". Here, students joke about this when they're late, although it's still not a rule, it's more like a (bad) custom.
zalew 16y ago
Also academic quarter is not 15 minutes, it's 15 minutes divided by year of study ;) At least i Poland :)
relix 16y ago
It's exactly the same in Belgium, and in my 6 years of going to university it happened exactly once. It was very helpful to decide that we should no longer wait and could assume the lesson was cancelled, instead of waiting around for an hour and a quarter not sure if the professor was coming or not.