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Prof Grapples With Fate: Teaching Dolts

'I am the man who has to lower the hammer,' he admits

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted May 25, 2008 1:32 PM CDT

(Newser) – An English professor at a small US college admits that half his job is killing students' dreams—dreams that they can write, think, or even form a sentence, he writes anonymously in the Atlantic. Yet more American jobs require college credits, and his role is... Read full story »

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