<p>So today i had an economics class. This was the 2nd time our class met and half way into a lecture, our professor tells us we are screwed bc of the economy and coming from X school (school i go to) as a finance or economics major would mean we wouldn’t get jobs after college. Now this professor is very blunt i can tell and seems very cool but why would you say this to a class? I mean I feel like one of the better students at my school bc i wouldn’t consider it a top tier school or even middle tier school by any means but still comments like this worry me about what to do after college if i can’t find a job in the field I’m studying.</p>
<p>What a ****** professor! I would write an email to the department telling them what a loser she is.</p>
<p>Wow… Not only is that not necessarily true (some will find jobs immediately, some will take longer), it is ridiculous to say to a class of students coming to college to better themselves.</p>
<p>idk tho i really like the guy. He seems like a straightforward person that doesn’t BS anything. Again I think a lot of the students at my school are underachievers so i wouldn’t totallly argue with the statment. Just think its wrong to throw out there when atleast some students are motivated.</p>
<p>It is wrong, though if he is otherwise good, maybe it was a botched attempt at a shocking statement about the state of the economy.</p>
<p>College Professor making a controversial statement – there’s a new one. That’s been going on since the advent of the Teacher/Student relationship and often in the early days of Introductory Classes.</p>
<p>Many reasons I can think of:
- Get the students attention
- To see if the students are awake and engaged.
- To see if anybody will challenge the opinion of a Mentor.
- To see how somebody will logically lay out a rebuttal
- Just to see the reaction of the Freshman on campus and judge their current attitude
- Just to get the students talking inside class to each other and to the Professor.</p>
<p>Solution:
Ask him why and what can be done to change to course of YOUR future
Respectfully make an argument to the contrary either in class or during office hours.
I strongly suggest not “reporting him to the principal” since depending on his motives it might just be the wrong thing to do. You’ll have to talk to him directly to find out if this his real opinion.</p>
<p>Some of the funniest (after the fact) things I’ve ever heard came out of Professor’s mouth were quite intentionally controversial and a whole lot worse than what you heard. It’s hard enough to even talk to a Nobel/Pulitzer/XXX Prize winner, much less challenge a statement he just made, but at least twice I was on the periphery of such an argument, and after a pretty “vehement” well thought out discussion Dr. “Nobel” admitted setting the trap. His point was not to blindly accept someone’s opinion just based on the letters or awards behind the name. College is meant to THINK about the lesson and not just memorize what you read and hear. It’s not always meant to be easy, it certainly isn’t fun, but challenging authority in a logical way can be a quite interesting exercise for a professor who is trying to get a feel for a new class.</p>
<p>Maybe he’s burnt out, maybe he a pessimist or having a bad day, or just maybe he’s being a very smart teacher. Talk with students from his past classes and find out if it’s a style and whether he expects (or at least accepts) to be challenged… I hate the RateMyProfessor site b/c like most reviews sites it often self selects the disgruntled students (angry or disappointed customers are far more likely to go to a site like that to report), but it can be a starting point.</p>
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<p>That part was a joke, but I still find the comment unprofessional.</p>
<p>Professors sometimes seem to get a little high on themselves and jump on a soapbox and say something unprofessional. If there wasn’t an obvious joke there that went over your head, that is what I would guess was going on there.</p>