On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:54:22 -0500, "
wrote:

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:34:01 -0500, Swingman wrote:

On 8/15/2011 10:16 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:03:42 -0500, wrote:

Sorry, but IMO it's just more of the same with regard to the systematic
slide into mediocrity that is creeping into all levels of education in
this country.

If it's a slide, nothing has changed for over 50 years.

Nothing has changed for over 50 years?

In that regard, not really. Just more of the same.

Really?

Really. My father died in '65. He had the same sorts of issues with his
employer (a top university). The problem then was professors who didn't teach
and the flood of Indian graduate student teaching assistants and instructors
^ and Chinese
who couldn't speak English. Not a lot of difference.