[84porsche]

Well I totally agree about the tenure needing to be kicked. While job security is great, when you have lousy teachers teaching that have guaranteed jobs then you are getting nowhere. My mom has been teaching for over 30 years and just as dedicated but as a product of the public school system and CA state college system, changes need to be made.

As far as textbooks are concerned, I have nearly all of them except the ones I traded with friends so I could take the next class. Everyone of them is technically worthless as far as able to be reused because of edition changes.

BlueSkyJaunte brought up the ENGLISH part. My first accounting class was taught by a professor who could barely speak English, let alone teach in general. He then had the audacity to grade one of my papers on English grammar. When I got the paper back, I found out that one of his assistants had graded my paper and I made him explain to me why I was deducted points as he didn't even look at it. I called him out on this and required that my paper be regraded. This was completely unacceptable in my book especially since I was paying for my education.

I think a college education is important and adds security to ones life. I went for a business degree but the classes I enjoyed the most were the philosophy and political science classes because these classes require thought. The others were repetition, "read this, test tomorrow" stuff and multiple choice exams where even if you picked "c" for all the answers, you had a good chance of passing a class.