DEMAND MORE

Hoday,

As students we rely on our institutions for quality education but we most likely don't get it. My most recent experience disappointed me so greatly that I fired them like an incompetent employee.

And the most disappointing factor is that these students didn't even know what they were missing. They think that they're receiving a top-notch education. They would be shocked at the material being taught at other schools.

When I began teaching undergrad music at my graduate school, I was satisfied that my undergrad institution was far superior. This school shortened the weeks per semester quarter and taught the same amount of material used in normal 16 week semesters at most schools. But all this did was cut corners and deprive students from valuable information of the music system. No wonder they don't require their own undergrads take an entrance exam - they could never pass it.

We must demand more from our professors and administration. They have lost touch with the needs of the student, they have lost touch with their purpose as educators, and they are not receptive to criticism. Be careful, what comes around - goes around. I don't know about you but when my employees don't do their job right, they get fired.

I hope that my State College will one day have a graduate program.

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