252A met in
English
a
second floor lounge
this year. The
of education has nothing to which it is
quality
the environment in
do with
taught;
rather it
students want
depends
to
learn
upon whether the not. Or so the
or
administrators say when asked why there are so many problems with education to
University asks the in problems, the instruc students don't give a damn."
day. And when
the
structors about
these
tors say. "the
Whereupon the Administration has
an
out;
it is the students' fault. Ask
a
problems will
most
there
student
many why with education here at U.R.L; he likely answer, "the instructors are
so
give a damn." From a strict point of view it is the instructors' fault. The teach ers on campus often don't put a lot of ef don't
fort into their work, and yet how can they? How can a teacher stand in front of 499 students and keep their attention or their
they can't even see much less properly? And moreover, because
interest when hear him
of the present tenure system, which the in structor must face in working for the Uni
versity; the 'publish one
an
instructor
or
can
rule' is not
perish afford
to
overlook.
These rules, and others, lead to the disillu sionment of
new
instructors,
may start off students; for they
they
where
versity
they or
trying soon
must start
to
even
though
work for the
reach
working
the
point
for the Uni
leave.
These administrative problems at U.R.L in turn lead to the main educational prob lem. And it is a two-sided problem; the students lose interest because they get lost