[extropy-chat] Researchers and students in America

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Brent Neal <brentn at freeshell.org> wrote:

> 
> I'll note that all of my profs in both undergraduate and graduate
> school for whom English was their 2nd language spoke the language
> quite well. Don't confuse the cariacature of college with the real
> thing.

Lucky you. Of course, I said assistant profs and graduate instructors,
not profs. Foreigners with full professorships do tend to be
understandable if not fluent. At WPI in the 80's, the Illegibles  and
Inscrutibles were typically japlish-type speakers for whome English was
a fourth or fifth language (less well spoken, than, say, C, fortran,
and pascal). These types generally are wanted strictly for their
ability to relieve professors of hard and heavy research number
crunching, bean counting and bottle washing. Relieving them of teaching
undergrads is also seen as a benefit, but not something graduate slots
are selected for. Profs actually tend to like to stick undergrads with
inscrutable instructors, they see it as a means of weeding out those
who cannot operate independently of instruction.

=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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