I'm going to assume that you plan to teach at a public school. I posit that in that situation you do not serve the students. Your job exists not because the students want you to teach, but because the parents and taxpayers want you to teach, and *they* pay your salary.
Democratic society, as a whole, recognizes the need for an educated populace in order to advance the general welfare of society. The community, whether through the taxing district that collects property or sales taxes directly for the school district budget or the larger state that funds each district per capita, is the employer and the one to whom the teacher is beholden. I claim that that that community expects you to educate all of the students in the curriculum that the school, district, or state has set forth. Were one student, or all of the students, to challenge your authority in the classroom, the community expects you to impose a degree of martial law to maintain order, with reinforcements if necessary. That such conflict happens is an indictment of the parenting (or lack of same) that "prepared" the child for school.
The university classroom is analogous. The numbers show that that the students do not pay the professor's salary. The community (government grants, private donations, etc.) pay the vast bulk of faculty payroll. The university and its faculty is there to serve the community by advancing knowledge (research) and propogating it (through teaching and colloquia). In professional disciplines (medicine, law, engineering, etc.) society expects the university in general, and the teacher in particular, to prepare qualified candidates for employment. In academic disciplines, the payoff for society is less economically direct, but the expectation is similar: create knowledge and spread it around.
You, as a nascent teacher, know (or soon will know) that the institutional method of conveying knowledge is based on a factory model, and that order in the classroom is critical. I do not claim that this is the only or the best way for students to learn. Indeed, a mentor in my childhood, my high school principal, told me privately that true students learn in spite of "education," not because of it. But the factory pedagogical model is the one we use, by and large, with all of its shortcomings. A teacher instructs the students. If one or all of the students are so disrespectful as to interfere with the orderly conduct of the class, those students by needs *must* be removed.
I concede that some teachers are incompetent. If such incompetence creates an inordinate amount of classroom conflict, that will soon (we hope) become apparent to the administration and the teacher will be "reassigned," though probably not in time for the students unfortunate enough to expose the teacher's defects.
I applaud MustardMan's candor and courage. I've seen too many brats on my university campus to doubt the circumstances he described or challenge the propriety of his actions.
I'm confused. If your boss wants "subsidized rates", who will provide the subsidy? "Subsidized rates" usually means that the buyer gets a discount and the seller gets full price while a third party makes up the difference...hence the "susidy".
Ask your boss who will subsidize the rates? And get out of there ASAP. Two weeks, max, and don't look back.
I looked up Univ. or Washington (where I work) on their list. Forbes counts 1200 computers for 28,000 students. There might be 3000 computers just in my building. I'd estimate closer to 20,000 for the whole university.
They also erred on several other survey points:
- Students *can* get discounts on computers.
- The school *does* stream some courses.
- USENET *is* available (widely, I might add).
- The school *does* offer courses in emerging technology (thanks in large part to certain benfactors in Redmond).
- And the campus radio station *is* streamed live.
My guess is that Forbes called the admissions or public relations department and surveyed the receptionist.
No offense intended, but why didn't you just do a google search rather than asking 1.5million slashdotters?
Because Google turns up 1,400,000 hits of mostly crap in 0.11 seconds. When you need advice, do you ask a librarian, or a group of trusted friends? By your logic, we should trust the company that wants to sell us RAID cards. I'd rather ask people that use RAID products, not sell them.
It's not apparent from your post, but if you are evaluating gateway-to-gateway VPNs using *nix systems, I'm *really* interested to hear how PPPD-over-stunnel measures up. It seems to simple in concept, but how is the CPU load?
Has anyone else benchmarked PPPD/stunnel vs. PoPTop or FreeS/WAN?
No it hasn't. PPPD-over-stunnel is blatantly missing. The review is skewed toward opportunistic VPNs and ignores *nix gateway-to-gateway VPNs completely.
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I'm going to assume that you plan to teach at a public school. I posit that in that situation you do not serve the students. Your job exists not because the students want you to teach, but because the parents and taxpayers want you to teach, and *they* pay your salary.
Democratic society, as a whole, recognizes the need for an educated populace in order to advance the general welfare of society. The community, whether through the taxing district that collects property or sales taxes directly for the school district budget or the larger state that funds each district per capita, is the employer and the one to whom the teacher is beholden. I claim that that that community expects you to educate all of the students in the curriculum that the school, district, or state has set forth. Were one student, or all of the students, to challenge your authority in the classroom, the community expects you to impose a degree of martial law to maintain order, with reinforcements if necessary. That such conflict happens is an indictment of the parenting (or lack of same) that "prepared" the child for school.
The university classroom is analogous. The numbers show that that the students do not pay the professor's salary. The community (government grants, private donations, etc.) pay the vast bulk of faculty payroll. The university and its faculty is there to serve the community by advancing knowledge (research) and propogating it (through teaching and colloquia). In professional disciplines (medicine, law, engineering, etc.) society expects the university in general, and the teacher in particular, to prepare qualified candidates for employment. In academic disciplines, the payoff for society is less economically direct, but the expectation is similar: create knowledge and spread it around.
You, as a nascent teacher, know (or soon will know) that the institutional method of conveying knowledge is based on a factory model, and that order in the classroom is critical. I do not claim that this is the only or the best way for students to learn. Indeed, a mentor in my childhood, my high school principal, told me privately that true students learn in spite of "education," not because of it. But the factory pedagogical model is the one we use, by and large, with all of its shortcomings. A teacher instructs the students. If one or all of the students are so disrespectful as to interfere with the orderly conduct of the class, those students by needs *must* be removed.
I concede that some teachers are incompetent. If such incompetence creates an inordinate amount of classroom conflict, that will soon (we hope) become apparent to the administration and the teacher will be "reassigned," though probably not in time for the students unfortunate enough to expose the teacher's defects.
I applaud MustardMan's candor and courage. I've seen too many brats on my university campus to doubt the circumstances he described or challenge the propriety of his actions.
And I spend an average of four hours a week maintaining two clusters...but not with those GFlops.
I'm confused. If your boss wants "subsidized rates", who will provide the subsidy? "Subsidized rates" usually means that the buyer gets a discount and the seller gets full price while a third party makes up the difference...hence the "susidy".
Ask your boss who will subsidize the rates? And get out of there ASAP. Two weeks, max, and don't look back.
The Forbes survey results are bogus.
I looked up Univ. or Washington (where I work) on their list. Forbes counts 1200 computers for 28,000 students. There might be 3000 computers just in my building. I'd estimate closer to 20,000 for the whole university.
They also erred on several other survey points:
- Students *can* get discounts on computers.
- The school *does* stream some courses.
- USENET *is* available (widely, I might add).
- The school *does* offer courses in emerging technology (thanks in large part to certain benfactors in Redmond).
- And the campus radio station *is* streamed live.
My guess is that Forbes called the admissions or public relations department and surveyed the receptionist.
M$ bought GeCAD software (makers of RAV Anti-Virus) a year ago [press release]. What surprises me is that RAV is still available for Linux.
Hear! Hear!
Because Google turns up 1,400,000 hits of mostly crap in 0.11 seconds. When you need advice, do you ask a librarian, or a group of trusted friends? By your logic, we should trust the company that wants to sell us RAID cards. I'd rather ask people that use RAID products, not sell them.
Firefox with this code blocks most ads.
It's not apparent from your post, but if you are evaluating gateway-to-gateway VPNs using *nix systems, I'm *really* interested to hear how PPPD-over-stunnel measures up. It seems to simple in concept, but how is the CPU load?
Has anyone else benchmarked PPPD/stunnel vs. PoPTop or FreeS/WAN?
No it hasn't. PPPD-over-stunnel is blatantly missing. The review is skewed toward opportunistic VPNs and ignores *nix gateway-to-gateway VPNs completely.