That is exactly the education that is given in the private music profession. People come because the want and are committed and when it is over they leave. No degrees so if they need a recommendation the teacher is loath to give one that is not deserved since the student represents his quality as well. Students tend to say how long they studied with a teacher. I have had many teachers over my lifetime but only count the ones that I studied more than a year with, with the exception of one who changed my life in a short time. In this profession your education is based upon success and if your students don't succeed in life you don't either.
REH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Keith Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Selma Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:48 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] ) Hue and Cry on 'Whiteness Studies' > Harry Pollard wrote: > > > Keith. > > > > We don't need a "fair playing field" in the universities. We need the > > best scholars without regard to race, or skin color, or anything else > > but their capacity most effectively to use the university resources. > > > > Playing with test scores and suchlike is road to disaster. > > [snip] > > "You" will not have a fair playing field at the universities > so long as the school has asymmetrical power to hurt the student. > I have little hope of a student revolution. > > Students need to be financially independent, so that > they can vote with their feet. > > There was a PBS show on Thomas Jefferson, which said > he conceived the University to be exactly this way: > The university would draw great scholars from around the > world. The school would not "grant" degrees. Students > would come because they wanted to learn there, and they > would leave when they no longer felt that was the > best use of their time. --Does this sound like YOUR > education? I did get a little taste of it, so I > now know a bit of what is possible, and > I recognize more than a bit > of what should never have come into existence, and > which, having had the misfortune to do that, it > should go back swiftly whence it came. > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
