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Re: Rubin's trolls
Posted:
Mar 1, 1997 2:10 AM
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hrubin@b.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) wrote:
>In article <5evijs$mqt@wpg-01.escape.ca>, >Robert Bacal <rbacal@escape.ca> wrote: >>hrubin@b.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) wrote:
>>>>He doesn't claim these views because he knows that PURDUE doesn't and >>>>cannot teach this way. No one can!!!!
>>>>Mr. Rubin is a "troller".
>>>I have been teaching this way at Purdue for quite a few years. There >>>are others who are not. And unless the Statistics Department or the >>>Purdue administration deliberately take a position, which is rare, >>>there is no such view.
>>The bizarre parts of this are:
>>How does an academic find the time to devote to posting thousands of >>email, largely repetitive over a number of years, while still earning >>his keep?
>>Equating what one can do at Purdue with what one can do at an >>underfunded school in Harlem.
>Let people who have learned English and not "education" teach English.
...various stuff snipped because it was the standard re-iteration and didn't address anything in my post.
Why is that? What would one say about a public school teacher who had time to post thousands of internet posts while at the same time taking home a large salary? Would we not wonder whether the teacher was worth the money?
Is university so much different?
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