I just got home from 5 hours of lecture on what is supposed to be a graduate course on the philosophy, principles, and practices of the management of quality assurance. After listening to Dr. White yammer on about the five C's of communication, one of those C's being "concise," as well as giving a complete drill down of Maslow, negative reinforcement as a behavior modification technique, replenishable and non-replenishable organizational resources, the "Arsenal of Venice," a full hour spent dissecting operational definition, and realizing marketing results.................I'm left sitting in my chair in the classroom laughing to myself. Then I realize my peers are doing likewise. We're not looking for a CQM certification, or even a Lean/6 Sigma black belt, but it seems we're all left wondering if the university did any QA on this guy's program of instruction. Of course, he could be gathering data for a second doctoral dissertation on using "irony" as a teaching technique. If my mind wasn't tattered at 5pm this evening when class started, it certainly was at 10pm. 
Damn, this beer is good! 
Oh god. I used to cringe whenever I heard some twit start rattling on about Abraham Maslow and the Heirarchy of Need. Every half assed prof in western civilization uses that lecture crutch.
For me Maslow proved Pavlov. Whenever I heard the name I salivated and took a bite out of some wankers lecture for wasting my time.
If you sat through all that you're a far more patient soul then I am Henry. Sounds like a lecture designed to make a guy wizz in someone's Post Toasties.
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Topic: Just checking in--twolane (Read 3938 times)