"Today's professors are mostly mediocre teaching machines, often repeating what they have repeated for years. Powered by a piece of paper called 'doctoral degree,' protected by another piece of paper called 'tenure,' they have become recording machines that spit out the same words as soon as in class.
A simple test can show the sorry state of the conditioned human called 'professor.' Take away the two pieces of paper called 'doctoral degree' and 'tenure,' and clear majority of today's tenured professors will not be considered suitable for getting hired to teach the same courses they are teaching today. Ask any tenured professor to walk away from the 'tenure,' to walk away from the 'doctoral degree,' denounce both as representations of the dead knowledge of years ago and then try to enter any university without those two pieces of paper, relying solely on the 'knowledge' accumulated over the years. The answer you receive will tell you how entrenched today's professors are in the knowledge-dams.
Today's education system is designed on 'certificates' of the dead knowledge of the past, namely 'degrees' and 'tenure' statements. There is no flowing knowledge in such pieces of paper. The pieces of paper the tenured professors cherish are proclamations that the dead knowledge of past is all a professor needs. They are knowledge-dams that allow nothing new to flow to the occupiers of tenured positions. So long as professors act like worn out tape recorders, passing on the dead knowledge to new generations in search of degrees, they will reamin untouchable.
Would the 800,000 faculty members of today's universities tear up their degrees and tenures and go back to school and become students? Or , would they continue to prefer the security of the knowledge-dams such as degree and tenure? Are professors alike in reaching a world of work-sharing knowledge seekeers? Or, are they another barrier, another concentration of knowledge-dams fighting anyone who dares to post a threat to Tenure and Profit?Perhaps the professors and teachers of today's societies will see the light of the path of work-sharing knowledge seeker. But then, as occupiers of relatively privileged positions, they are well-conditioned to remain believers in the master artifacts, ignorant of the waste steams.
Friday, February 9, 2007
Inspection
"Be especially careful when handling mail. Remember that the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is a low-profile but extremely proficient law enforcement agency, better than their peers. Over the years, their conviction rate has been higher than the other two well-known federal agencies, the FBI and the Secret Service. A person doesn't want to be in trouble with the Postal Inspectors."
Thursday, February 8, 2007
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