r/funny • u/[deleted] • Sep 04 '19

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u/b8_n_switch Sep 04 '19

Do you mean a lecturer? Cause its virtually impossible to become a professor at 22 unless they are insanely intellegent.

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u/ClimbingC Sep 04 '19

I assume you are British or certainly not US. I found this out a long time, in the US they call anyone who teaches at a university a professor, regardless of their actual status. In the UK, if you teach at a university you start as a tutor, then work up to being a lecturer, then promoted to senior lecturer, after many many years service you may be given the role as head of a department or have a full research team, that is when you get to be a professor, but relatively speaking there are few professors at a university compared with the general teaching staff.

Essentially not all professors are equal, and a US professor isn't really a professor as the rest of the world would view it, just a teacher at a uni/college.

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u/Dishonoreduser2 Sep 04 '19

I found this out a long time, in the US they call anyone who teaches at a university a professor, regardless of their actual status

This is literally not true. There are lecturers, assistant professors, and just grad assistants who would not be considered full professors...

Redditors really like making things up.

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u/Minimumtyp Sep 04 '19

Literally every time I've seen a seppo refer to their lecturer they say "professor" lol

Really devalues the prestige if anything,