XPost: soc.culture.asian.american, misc.education, nyc.general   
   XPost: soc.culture.china   
   From: hrubin@odds.stat.purdue.edu   
      
   In article <1133909285.935111.284230@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,   
   Ira Humperdink MD  wrote:   
   >> Any decent college course is not like that at all. "   
      
   >students are the paying customers; pay them what they demand so you   
   >have a satisfied customer   
      
   At few universities are the students providing the bulk of   
   the support.   
      
   Also, what are they paying for?  An essentially worthless   
   piece of paper saying they spent four years at good   
   behavior, or the ability to use their supposedly acquired   
   knowledge?  We are giving them the former, and it is time   
   it was recognized that, for most, the latter is not even   
   close to present.   
      
      
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