Timeline for How honest should one be with their students when talking about the realities of academia?
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| Jan 13, 2017 at 17:47 | comment | added | Jeffiekins | No. You do not need to balance honesty with respect. You need to balance honesty and your experience and knowledge with the fact that you can't predict the future accurately. When I was teaching high school, I used to say things like "well, imagine an admissions officer. She has 40 applications to read in the next hour. After glancing at your transcript and SATs, is she going to read the rest of your application? Maybe, but you can see you'll need a Plan B." | |
| Jan 12, 2017 at 12:37 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | Did you mean to imply that brutal honesty and respect are antithetical to one another? Isn't being honest also being respectful? It might depend on what you mean by "brutal", but to me that part of it is more on a spectrum with "polite" than "respectful". | |
| Jan 9, 2017 at 18:19 | comment | added | JeffE | To echo @PeteL.Clark in different words... I don't think there is anything to balance; brutal honesty and respect are not opposites. | |
| Jan 9, 2017 at 6:22 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | "I think you need to balance brutal honesty with treating students with respect." I agree, but I also think it is possible to convey one's full opinion of the chances of success in a respectful way. It takes some forethought to choose one's words appropriately and some guts to say them, but it is certainly achievable with effort. | |
| Jan 9, 2017 at 5:39 | history | answered | aeismail | CC BY-SA 3.0 |