Life may be like Proff Adams and you would like it to be inside the classroom but outside of the academic environment....Prof Adams “I make the rules attitude” will have consequences as well.....and they will not bode well for him.....this I can assure you. Everyone has their little power play, their little area of opwer but when you become overbearing it tends to have negative consequences.
The whole Adams column was about personal responsibility and respect for one’s teachers.
I think that there was more to the ADD wrong paper student than was written about.
However, I have tremendous respect for my college teachers from the old days. Most were not egotistical assholes, but hardworking, professional, and caring. Even one of my leftist, Give Castro a chance, professors was one of my best teachers.
The worst were two French teachers, both who either studied at the Sorbonne or taught there - egotistical bitches. The other French teacher was a real gentleman who understood that American students did not learn verbal French in High School, and needed a modified approach in his efforts.
Other than one old bitty English teacher, the rest (AA, BA, and graduate school, plus overseas studies), were really good people and deserving of respect.
If you give respect, you get respect. It’s that simple.
I’m glad that cell phones didn’t exist in my days in school. I actually learned something, and eventually married my girlfriend without a myriad of disruptive phone calls.
I LOL at you! Yeah, Mike Adams is is hated - just hated.
I hardly think that Professor Adams is “overbearing.”
His rules seem reasonable to me,FRankly.
And, might I remind you that without rules and conventions, etc. etc., one would have anarchy. Which anarchist society can you name that made a contribution to man’s progress down through the ages?