9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for June 30, 2007
Transcript:
"To add her views about familiarity between students and faculty, I have brought a person who has the right to address me by my given name, and who, by coincidence, gave it to me." "Some of you believe you should address my daughter as I do, by her first name. This is an academic institution, not a familial one. Dr. Burber is a recognized expert in a subject the surface of which you have yet to scratch. She is your master in this classroom, your superior outside, and is to be addressed accordingly..." "...by her pedagogical honorific, as befits her stature in this university and the traditions of academe. Anything else would be disgraceful." "Thank you, Mother." "Be quiet, Ducks, I'm not finished...I think it was George Bernard Shaw who said..."