Administrators have not always looked favorably on Professor Dalton's theory of education. After they discovered that he was allowing a group of undocumented students to slip into his lectures semester after semester, he was asked to reconsider his open classroom policy, gently reminded that Columbia University has a formal auditing program and that students pay upwards of $50,000 a year.
The professor smiled and replied without pause, "These are my friends. You wouldn't tell any other professor that he couldn't invite his friends to sit in on his class."
Sunday, February 1, 2009
If I am ever in Columbia University...
I want to meet this guy:
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He sounds like a good guy.
Didn't read the article, but whoever is complaining about people auditing the courses must have forgotten that students aren't paying for the coursework, but for the piece of paper that says "Columbia grad." That means those eavesdroppers sitting in on the course aren't taking anything of value from the University, they're not diluting the brand. Columbia has nothing to complain about.
I love his response. Priceless.
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