New ideas are often rejected!  When I came to UC/UTC in 1968, I told 
students that I would not permit smoking in the classroom.  I became one of 
the most disliked professors because of that, but I insisted and continued 
and I always had large student enrollment!  Later smoking was officially 
forbidden in class rooms and thus I was ahead of my time.  Now , God 
revealed to me an idea, The Time Dollar Concept, to provide a good life for 
all people.  Although the idea of democracy was invented by the Greeks five 
or six hundred years before Christ, the ideas of democracy was put into 
practice for the first time by the United States of America, the greatest 
country that ever existed on earth, but we still have poor and home less 
people in our country.  If we put the idea of Time Dollar Concept into 
practice, then we can have true democracy put into practice by providing 
equal opportunity for all people in our society and then in any other society.

Please help to put this idea into practice for the common good.  Best 
wishes to all of you!

Seriously yours
Professor  P.  K.  Geevarghese

At 01:51 PM 5/24/2006, Michel E. Holder wrote:
>Some disciplines being taught at UTC prepare the students for careers in
>which some form of certification is expected if not required. Nursing,
>accounting, and engineering are three examples. I do not have first-hand
>knowledge of the other two, but the professional engineering examinations
>are given in a highly controlled environment where no outside resources are
>allowed. Even the type of calculator allowed is tightly controlled and
>monitored.
>
>In my opinion, the idea of allowing a student to "consult" with an expert
>during an examination totally negates the purpose of the examination. What
>is the difference between getting an answer from the internet and getting
>the answer from the student sitting next to you in the exam? I see no
>difference. In an emergency, I want the pilot of the plane in which I'm a
>passenger to KNOW how to fly the plane without using the "phone a friend"
>lifeline from the TV show. Real life often demands that you immediately know
>something without having to "Google" for the answer. There is far too much
>reliance on "other sources" in our society and far too little self-reliance.
>
>
>Of course, if we continue to become more and more liberal with our approach
>to education and the awarding of degrees, we will soon be able to totally
>depend on the Chinese to "take care of us".
>
>         Michel Holder
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: UTC Staff E-Mail List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of K
>Rushing
>Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:47 AM
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>Subject: [UTCSTAFF] Cell Phones-another perspective.
>
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>
>Actually, I sort of enjoy cell phones in the classroom. When a phone
>goes off, I stop what I'm doing, focus on the caller... and I ask the
>recipient of the call to let his or her classmates know from whom the
>call came and what the call was about.
>
>Most of the time, the person receiving the call is a bit nonplussed,
>and more often than not, apologizes to the class and to me. The
>surprising thing to me is that after the first incident or two, we
>very rarely, receive additional calls.
>
>As far as taking pictures of the tests - I have been giving the
>students my old tests for years.
>
>    ...and I've moved to open-book, open computer, open technology
>examinations anyway - so, if the student wants to call an expert for
>an answer, fine. Of course, that's more of a discipline specific
>technique...  but, the idea behind the open book, open web, open
>email, open cell phone during a mid-term or final exercise is that
>the youngsters must search all available sources for the best answer
>to a problem, to a story, to a legal scenario...  and a significant
>part of their education and training is to collect available
>information, analyze that information, synthesize the material, and
>present it to a target audience (in the case of an examination -
>that's me) in a cogent, readable form.
>
>The students, after graduation, will have these workplace resources
>available anyway, and I certainly want the young professionals to be
>conditioned to search and to use the best sources of information.
>
>So... in a way, unlike many of our colleagues, I don't mind cell
>phones in the classroom - actually, I sort of encourage them.
>
>I don't expect my position to be widely adopted - but, I suppose
>sharing my attitude is important. It's important because I do not
>want the university to impose an institution-wide ban on the
>technology of personal research and communication.
>
>-k
>
>
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