[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's an idiot...

[Andrew MacIan]

No: HPFGUIDX 33812

Greetings from Andrew!

And no...it's not simply one academic sticking up for
another.  Honestly, it's not....

--- Terri Lyn Layman <terrilyn at ameritech.net> wrote:
> Ok, not really, but he does lack in administrative
> skill.
> 

Interesting thesis.  Let's presume that Prof D. is,
say, the President of the 'Harvard of the West Coast'
wherein I teach.  That sounds about right for the
level of responsibility, yes?

> Things seem to go on at Hogwarts that he has no
> knowlege of.

Ok. And....?  I utterly have no doubt that the Pres
has NO CLUE what it is that I do with my classes, nor
has he any desire to get one.  There's no reason for
him to have such information.  His *delegated* person,
the Chair (my direct boss), *is* required to have that
knowledge; that's part of *his* job.

>  There's also
> nearly unabashed favortisim on some levels towards
> various instructors.
> Yet, some of the instructors that I would classify
> as needing to be "in the
> loop" the most, don't seem to be.

Erm. Could you have another go at that?  I see that as
being an argument in favor of Prof D. *not needing* to
be in the loop.

> 
> He has a non-graduate teaching a seemingly
> importaint course.  Now, unless
> I'm mistaken, there seems to be no framework whereby
> Hagrid could get
> equivelent owls/newts.  But, if there is, why hasn't
> Dumbledore had him take
> them?  I'm sure that an intensive summer with McG,
> Snape, et. al, and he
> could be in top form to take these equivalency
> exams.

Ever dealt with people who are world-class specialists
in some abstruse field (I have ballistics directly in
mind here, due to personal experience), but who don't
have a B.Sc.?  If not, you're condemning an awfully
big sample of people who can teach, and who do,
without thinking beyond the academic degree mill.  Or
so I read what you've written.

> 
> I guess this isn't overly cohereant, but I'm just
> looking at D'dore and
> comparing him to the president of my university.  I
> know that if the head of
> Purdue acted like D'dore, that he would be asked to
> reevaluate his desire to
> continue in his position.

And yet...my university's President is, in most of the
ways you've delineated above, *exactly* like Prof D.

Horses for courses, eh?

Cheers,

Drieux

PS  Wanna swap grad students?

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