Originally posted by cjbaldw:
I had a mix of professors, some really good and some that were typical of what I find in academia. Those that were good (the minority I'm sorry to say), worked in the real world for a good period of time and turned to teaching because they had a passion for it, wanted to make a contribution to young people, and they were well compensated by the college, as they should be. Most of them, however, were academia types that IMHO had no place teaching students, because they had little real world experience to bring to the table, and that's what I value. I don't want to ONLY learn the accounting concepts for instance, I want to hear the professor's stories of his real world accounting experiences on the job. THAT is more valuable than the accounting concepts alone. My best finance professor owned his own financial consulting business even while he was a university professor, and always had great stories to tell and to apply to the concepts he taught, I can still remember those concepts to this day, because they were his real world experiences and they made sense when explained within the context of his real world examples. Even when I was in the engineering school, the best professors were the ones who really did work as engineers for a good length of time before returning to academia. The worst profs I had went straight through their Ph.D educations and then proceeded straight into an assistant professor and then into a full on professor position. I found these people to be very intelligent, sometimes brilliant intellectual people, with exceedingly little common sense and no real world experiences upon which to base their complex theories which held very little value to anyone who has lived outside of the world they've never left.

Just my .02...






That is practically Gospel in my book. I looking back the classes I enjoyed and learned most were from teachers that came from the real world. The ones I learned and liked least were the PHD'd that went straight into teaching.

Originally posted by Chickens:
Religion can't do much for ashholes (unless you are an alterboy)

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