Comment by elicksaur

>I am frequently asked for my PowerPoint slides, which basically function for me as lecture notes. It is unimaginable to me that I would have ever asked one of my professors for their own lecture notes. No, you can’t have my slides.

I get that there’s been shifts in student attitudes - there’s lots of other people in similar positions saying it.

But, I think this quote of all of the text shows how the author has a distain for their students not simply because of any perceived lack of effort. My best professors would send these to the class without prompting.

But, the author clearly buys into the mystique of the professor like their lecture notes are some secret formula.

Meanwhile, they quote:

>Troy Jollimore writes, “I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the past few semesters.”

If I had a teammate in a shared intellectual pursuit who didn’t share their notes…