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To: JohnM who wrote (25196)	7/25/2006 8:23:44 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541624

You have now taken that issue into a discussion of the lack of behavioral control of faculty members who are "not professional." Reynolds commented that "excessive hostility" was not a Bad Thing in a professor. I was struck by that comment. I think that it is. If someone has so much hostility that it compromises his scholarship and/or provokes evangelizing in the classroom, then that person doesn't have the temperament for the job IMO and shouldn't be put in it. I'm sticking with that. I'm looking at this in the abstract. Lousy scholarship and evangelizing, that is, indulging their hostilities, are not what professors should be doing. Instead they're supposed to be conveying subject matter and helping students learn how to think. I don't know why Reynolds thinks that, or, as you suggest, he doesn't really think that but said so for some reason that I can't imagine and that for some reason you seem to get but won't explain, but if he does, I disagree with him. Period. What actually happens regarding this in university situations is of interest to you, I understand, but it's not a subject that energizes me. I just thought it weird, as I said when I brought it up, that he would think that. Let's back up a moment. It's a small point, of no particular consequence, just something that popped out at me. Not worthy of all this attention.