is there a Difference between.........

[law_bee]

paying a teacher to teach OR paying a coach to coach

The one thing I DO NOT understand is why EVERYTIME you criticize a coach so many people think you are an UNGRATEFUL S.O.B.

Don't you expect your professors to do their jobs? If a professor didn't do his job (teach the students) wouldn't you get a new professor?

You would honestly think these people were doing charity work for all the protection they get. If that Coach cashes his check then he has to perform his duties just like every other employee of GT.

 

[Guest1066]

and how many morons would they let this professor produce before they finally fired him. And if you were known only for producing idiots would anyone else send their kids there to be taught by this professor?

 

[83jacket]

Well...do professors really do their jobs well at GT. If so why is GT' student body graduation rate somewhere around 60%.Since, GT only accepts very well qualified students.....how can 40% not graduate. Are the profs not teaching them, not motivating them to do their best?

 

[GTLaker]

Unfortunately, I think professors at GT are supposed to keep some kind of bell curve distribution. I state this based on experience I had from an EE professor teaching digital hardware. He went from being a professor who taught the students in my experience to being one of the more feared ones approximately two years later. I think the administration did not like his grade distribution.

So the graduation rate doesn't always reflect the intelligence of the student, moreso the ability to survive and pick the best professors.

That's enough. I'm having flashbacks to painful memories.

 

[ahsoisee]

I believe the old adage is something like this, "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!".

This is my remark to any coach in the business. They are getting big bucks to do the job and stand the heat. If they can't stand the heat, it is time to get out of the job.

When I see one poster chiding another poster about their negative remarks against the coach, I can only think of this icon

, which being interpreted means, "hey ostrich, get your head out of the sand!".

It is always "open season" on the coaches.

 

[bellyseries]

I don't know firsthand about coaching, but teaching is not like giving someone a haircut, where the student sits there and the teacher "teaches" him. It's more like learning to ride a bike in that the learner has to do most of the work, most of the changing.