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Just reflecting back and thinking about the level of teaching sense necessary to become a college professor. I'm looking on youtube trying to freshen my memory about management concepts and I'm just amazed at how some of these guys with probably no teaching background are able to explain these concepts my professors struggled with, 100x better. Makes me think, business professors lack the empathetic compassion necessary to become an educator. Somehow between graduating grad school and getting more specialized in their field, business people leaning into teaching eventually become sloppy pieces of excrement that only want to ride the tenure train. I think higher education brain washes these people into being extremely morally ambiguous zombies.

I never got that sense from my English professors, and other fields related to humanities. I'm telling you, it's the brainwashing material.

Your business professors were bad because they were business professors.

They probably thought CEOs are wonderful people.

What was your actual major? I went to one of the top public business undergrads but there was a huge student body so you needed to get into honors track or take 400 level courses to get the really good professors. For the mandatory coursework like accounting or presentations etc they'll kinda let anyone do it (I mean relatively since it's not easy to become a professor still)

Shoot_FTH posted...

Your business professors were bad because they were business professors.

They probably thought CEOs are wonderful people.

What do you think the phenomenon behind this is?

Doe posted...

What was your actual major? I went to one of the top public business undergrads but there was a huge student body so you needed to get into honors track or take 400 level courses to get the really good professors. For the mandatory coursework like accounting or presentations etc they'll kinda let anyone do it (I mean relatively since it's not easy to become a professor still)

Business Admin. I felt like all my marketing and business development classes were a joke. It was just meaningless course work after coursework that wasn't congruent with what the professor was teaching in class. I felt like the professor just grabbed any ol' business textbook and just copied the coursework verbatim.

That does sound sucky. I majored in information systems in business, so I got to take some more self paced coding style classes. That said, now that I think about it my sophomore year was online during covid so I cannot speak much toward a lot of those sophomore professors since it was an unusual situation.

The only marketing class I really took was honors marketing management which is part of the capstone at my school and he didn't teach out of a textbook. And honestly, business profs shouldn't be teaching much out of a textbook unless it's a technical manual for say data skills or accounting rules. They should be using cases and projects and mediating them with their real world experience.

I'm not sure what makes some people, including business professors, think capitalism is wonderful. Capitalism is a fucking joke.

But still better than socialism.

Because the good ones are actually in business.