I find The Little Professor’s recent post about office hours to be rather troubling. I can’t believe students don’t take more advantage of office hours! I spend a ton of time in the office of each of my professors, probably to the point of driving them insane. Even if it is just to say hello in the morning, or goodnight before leaving campus, I try to make it to my professor’s offices as much as I can. I love talking to professors about their field of expertise. Whether it is aesthetics, grammar, Shakespeare, or hypertext fiction I wish I could put a funnel in the back of their heads to suck all the knowledge out.
I often hear students complaining about their professors not being available when they need them. This is usually, as the post TLP references points out, via email. Don’t students realize they have lives too? Sadly, as that article also points out, students seem to think because they play X they deserve Y amount of a professor’s time each day. What a pathetic bunch of crap!
An education is not just a service you pay for the way you would an oil change. An education is something that enriches your life, not just a means to an end so you receive a piece of paper at the end of four years. The way a lot of students I’ve encountered seem to feel about their professors is sad and pathetic. It is a sobering thought that these people will go out in the world and become the next generation’s leaders.
We are doomed.
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