The professor as personal trainer
by Alex
A new ‘viewpoints’ piece of mine has appeared at “Inside Higher Ed”:http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2005/10/24/golub. It’s based on an earlier “Savage Minds blog entry”:http://savageminds.org/2005/09/22/what-you-really-really-want/. Doing an op-ed piece about teaching and the state of the academy when you are as green as I am is, of course, a crazy and hubristic thing to do. But I’ll use the starlet’s excuse: “I was young! I needed the money!” Actually I think the piece has a nice line or two in it, even though I feel like it needs about five or six more revisions. But I think that is just my inner dissertation talking.
Nice piece, except this one: “like Odysseus or Cinderella, they need patrons willing to use their awesome magical powers so that they can fulfill their destiny.” (*irgs)
Its no magic, a good mentor makes use of, but honest criticism.