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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Professors are generally arrogant blow hards with unearned superiority complexes. [/quote]

Yep.  Absolutely.  That's why I'm up grading right now.

It does, however, make me wonder why you all seem to want so badly to send your children to study with people like me.  If we're so useless and awful, why waste money on us?  Surely you could find other ways to purchase a decent life for your kid.  And my life would certainly be easier if the only students in my classroom were the ones who actually wanted to be there.[/quote]
This comment was an exemplary example of what PP is talking about. Academia is [b]the[/b] credentialing agency within American Society; whether or not we like it, academia is a guiding avenue for accessing middle class opportunities. Nonetheless, it allows a structure of abusive faculty members with massive egos to bulldoze over their graduate advisees and incentives those same faculty to spend as little time on teaching as possible. Add that with the relentless demands placed on exploited labor, namely postdocs and adjunct faculty, who migrate between colleges to survive. Anyone who defends this system should be seen as a bad actor to the average person. It's deeply corrupt and proves that just because you have a bunch of smart people working with one another, doesn't mean they'll make smart decisions.[/quote]

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