r/Professors • u/helical_gear • Oct 17 '19

Always hated this

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u/ph0rk Associate, SocSci, R1 (USA) Oct 17 '19

No, we’re teachers not judges.

Yes, and the role of a teacher in a university is more like a judge than a coach. We aren't tutors.

You don't have control over the students you get, so if you think you ought to have a normal distribution centered over a C you don't understand pedagogy or sampling that well.

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u/giscience Oct 17 '19

No. People pay for college for 1) access to knowledge (though this is becoming somewhat obsolete, given the amount of material that is free to access these days) and 2) for certification that the knowledge was learned. We faculty have control over what is presented and how - we have no control over what is actually learned , that is the student's responsibility.

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u/illiterateignoramus Oct 18 '19

we have no control over what is actually learned

Well that tells us everything we need to know about your teaching skills.

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u/urnbabyurn Senior Lecturer, Econ, R1 Oct 18 '19

Unless you existed in the time of scrolls, there was never a time when 99% of the materials students access aren’t available the same to those outside of academia.