[Azred]

Originally posted by Lucern: In college you have to stop taking information wholly by authority. A professor isn't telling you "Truth". S/He's telling you what can be learned from a specific discipline and how certain that knowledge can be based on reason and evidence and encouraging you to apply it in ways that test its validity. Some use labs, some use a wide variety of texts, experiments, or exercises, but that's basically what's happening here. Colleges are different of course, and anyone who's been has had his/her share of lousy profs, but to me, teaching people valid ways of gathering and analyzing information is the best thing they could possibly do.

[img]graemlins/laugh3.gif[/img] Of course, some professors want to be regarded as Authority and the dispensers of Truth. Naturally, if your truth disagrees with their Truth then you can try to take the class again next semester under a different professor.... [img]graemlins/beigesmilewinkgrin.gif[/img]

[ 01-24-2005, 09:26 PM: Message edited by: Azred ]