Wednesday Mar 22, 2006

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Question: do art teachers always let you call them by their first names because they're cool or because they don't have PhDs?
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ophelia:
It's the coolness thing.

All my more creative (read: hippiesque) profs used to let us call them by their first names regardless of subject taught. Then I used to have non-PhDed instructors who'd insist on being called by their last names or just being "sir".
signalnoise:
funny story: all the profs in a grad program GENERALLY let grad students use their 1st name (this is not univeral. at UChicago tradition was that everyone went by Mr/Ms - including students - so it was equal respect for all). but law schools are different - they still use "profesor X." i work for a guy at the law school (who is a JD/Phd) - and i call him by his 1st name. all his law students, call him "professor." it's just ... odd.

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