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I worked in factories. And car washes. And restaurants. I know personally the soul-killing nature of industrial work & work in the low-paid "service industry." I said nothing about the character or intelligence of either factory workers or college professors in my post, so I can only assume you are trying to be provocative. kent johnson wrote: > Joseph Duemer said that if it hadn't been for a couple of his high school > teachers that he'd no doubt be "working in a factory"... > > I would just like to say, in case Joseph meant that he would have been a > lesser person of some kind if he had ended up a factory worker, that a good > number of the "factory workers" I've worked with beat a good number of > college professors in measures of intelligence, ethics, and common sense, > for example, by a long shot. And some of these "factory workers" even work, > oh, 50-60 hours a week and take pride in their labor. Imagine! > > Anyway, probably Joseph meant something harmless-- like if he'd ended up in > a factory he wouldn't have his summers off, a feeling of petit-bourgeois > gratitude I certainly couldn't blame him for, as I sit here sipping my pina > colada at 10:45 in the morning. > > Kent > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com -- ====================== Joseph Duemer School of Liberal Arts, box 5750 Clarkson University Potsdam NY 13699 315.268.3967 [log in to unmask] http://web.northnet.org/duemer http://www.grammarbitch.com/ppp/index.html ======================