Comments on: This is Easy To Explain http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/this-is-easy-to-explain.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tmbmhdt http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/this-is-easy-to-explain.html/comment-page-1#comment-23614 tmbmhdt Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:02:32 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8866#comment-23614 bpamvtr- Thank you,tmbmhdt.Great site. bpamvtr- Thank you,tmbmhdt.Great site.

]]> By: Michael http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/this-is-easy-to-explain.html/comment-page-1#comment-22776 Michael Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:59:27 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8866#comment-22776 Jim, I was taking classes at a school that trained a lot of RNs. At that time, RNs had to take corporate finance, a class most struggled with and the professor loved the misery he wrought. The guy hated me. I'd show up once a week, maybe stay for an hour, never turn in home work, and got 100s on the tests. He lost it when half way through the term he found out I didn't have the 16 hours of prerequisite classes. Even tried to get me tossed out. But on the plus side he did use the book. Well, I guess. I wasn't in class much. Jim,

I was taking classes at a school that trained a lot of RNs. At that time, RNs had to take corporate finance, a class most struggled with and the professor loved the misery he wrought. The guy hated me. I’d show up once a week, maybe stay for an hour, never turn in home work, and got 100s on the tests. He lost it when half way through the term he found out I didn’t have the 16 hours of prerequisite classes. Even tried to get me tossed out. But on the plus side he did use the book. Well, I guess. I wasn’t in class much.

]]> By: Mark http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/this-is-easy-to-explain.html/comment-page-1#comment-22751 Mark Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:57:20 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8866#comment-22751 THis link provides a lot of clues as to the problems we have in education: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/31/090831fa_fact_brill THis link provides a lot of clues as to the problems we have in education:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/31/090831fa_fact_brill

]]> By: morganovich http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/this-is-easy-to-explain.html/comment-page-1#comment-22701 morganovich Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:46:33 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8866#comment-22701 we have a family friend who sells textbooks. it's all done with kickbacks, rounds of expensive golf, and spendy dinners. the schools absolutely, utterly don;t care what they buy. they care about the spiffs. that's the final cut, but a prior cut in most states involves getting on the "approved textbook" list. that's a more political style football. btw, if you think this is bad, you should see how the NYC schools hire contractors and buy phones. we have a family friend who sells textbooks. it’s all done with kickbacks, rounds of expensive golf, and spendy dinners. the schools absolutely, utterly don;t care what they buy. they care about the spiffs.

that’s the final cut, but a prior cut in most states involves getting on the “approved textbook” list. that’s a more political style football.

btw, if you think this is bad, you should see how the NYC schools hire contractors and buy phones.

]]> By: Jim Colins http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/this-is-easy-to-explain.html/comment-page-1#comment-22698 Jim Colins Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:34:47 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8866#comment-22698 Michael, Does that mean that you actually used the book in class? When I was in college, I spent over $400 for six books one Spring and only removed two of them from the shrink wrap. In two of the classes that had books I didn't unwrap, you would lose points if you didn't bring your book to each class. Michael,
Does that mean that you actually used the book in class? When I was in college, I spent over $400 for six books one Spring and only removed two of them from the shrink wrap. In two of the classes that had books I didn’t unwrap, you would lose points if you didn’t bring your book to each class.

]]> By: Michael http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/this-is-easy-to-explain.html/comment-page-1#comment-22696 Michael Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:20:23 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8866#comment-22696 I wonder how complicit schools are in all this. They guy who wrote my corporate finance book would reissue the same book every six months with a different set of chapter questions. Everyone had to buy a "new" book each time the class was taught. The guy who taught the class was a real prick and I can see him picking this book solely because it was reissued each term, but you'd think the school had to sign off on the book. I wonder how complicit schools are in all this. They guy who wrote my corporate finance book would reissue the same book every six months with a different set of chapter questions. Everyone had to buy a “new” book each time the class was taught. The guy who taught the class was a real prick and I can see him picking this book solely because it was reissued each term, but you’d think the school had to sign off on the book.

]]> By: elambend http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/this-is-easy-to-explain.html/comment-page-1#comment-22694 elambend Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:02:57 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8866#comment-22694 The physicist and writer Richard Feynman wrote a great essay about his involvement and disillusionment with the textbook process in California: http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm Please note, he did this in the early sixties! The physicist and writer Richard Feynman wrote a great essay about his involvement and disillusionment with the textbook process in California:
http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm

Please note, he did this in the early sixties!

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