I see an article and HN post full of obsolete old people thinking. You can't outsource responsibility for your life to someone else and then complain about it.

I see an article and HN post full of obsolete old people thinking. You can't outsource responsibility for your life to someone else and then complain about it. The prof is not responsible for what a student learns or enjoys any more than the prof is responsible for the students sex life or religious belief. The student is responsible for learning the material. If the prof refuses to answer questions or refuses to eval the students the prof is guilty. If the students are lazy thats too bad for the student, sucks to be them. If the students don't like their prof, who cares, they're just ignorant kids till they learn something useful... Old people thinking is you learn for 4 years then work at the same company doing the same thing for 43 years and retire with the corporate gold watch. Young people thinking is you learn full time for 4 years and then work while learning part time for 45+ years. For 4 years you have profs who you think you can outsource your responsibility for learning to... and your plan for the following 45+ professor-less years, still have to learn with no one to outsource your responsibility for learning to? Good luck with that. There is also the missed effect of warped samples because the population is not constant over time. Lazy students either sink or swim and possibly learn to avoid hard profs in the future. Given that selection pressure its hard to imagine hard profs not resulting in better grades later because the sample is self selecting itself away from hard profs or dropping out. Even if there is no difference in educational attainment between hard and soft profs.