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In India it is to fulfill the ego of professors nothing more. Unlike America professors are paid lower than the industry and those who can't get jobs in Industry become professors and treat students like slaves. I did not understood while in college but now i get it, it is a coping mechanism for incompetence. One good thing about Corono is that it forces online education like the recent MIT online classes, hope this will set a chain reaction and take the monopoly on education from traditional colleges.

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folkhack|6 years ago

> Unlike America professors are paid lower than the industry and those who can't get jobs in Industry become professors and treat students like slaves

Just sharing experiences, I was in-industry at the time of my education which caused a huge issue in backlash from the professors. These old salty men were dinosaurs and although I wasn't at some prestigious company I was still learning what it meant to run large-scale and highly-available web services - ie: they were stuck in the 8/16-bit era and I was HUNGRY to learn web.

Although I never felt like a slave, I felt like I was always a "lesser" to them no matter what. Coming to school with a fair amount of programming ability subverted them as I had a ton of people calling me up/IMing me for homework help vs. going to their restrictive office hours.

I wasn't the best student, aced the tests even with horrid attendance, organized collaboration on Google Docs so everyone had a consistent study-guide, and I tutored half of the class because I had better "office hours" that lined up with when college kids are working on homework/assignments... they haaated me.

JCharante|6 years ago

I'm pretty sure that in the U.S. professors are paid way lower than what they could get in industry. They probably get at least six figures but so does anyone in the industry, especially with as much experience as a professor would.

downerending|6 years ago

Depends on the field and on the individual. In many fields, the professors would be all but unemployable. And even in hot fields like CS, some professors would not be very useful. It's hard to remember now, but back in the 80s, a PhD in CS was almost a strike on your resume rather than a plus.