In the Basement of the Ivory Tower Premise Analysis

Aaron, Amanda, Brittany, Victor
May 14, 2010

Professor X makes a large amount of assumptions and premises throughout the course of the essay. A few of the most notable are the following: First off, Professor X claims that for many of his students, college was not a goal they spent years preparing for, and also adds that those he teaches don’t come up in the debates about adolescent overachievers and cutthroat college admissions and further on added that they take course like English 101 or English 102 because they were coerced to do so, and not simply out of enjoyment. This necessarily isn’t a premise but could be purely factual if he or she had verified or pre-determined the information by giving a student questionnaire or survey about their enthusiasm, commitment, and whether or not they chose the class, not out of necessity, but purely pleasure.

Another questionable presumption made by Professor X is when he states that, “We think of college professors as being profoundly indifferent to the grades they hand out.” “Professors can fail these young people with emotional impunity because many such failures are the students’ own fault: too much time spent texting, too little time with the textbooks.” Again, unless Professor X actually had continuous, scrupulous correspondence with other academic professors’ thoughts, feelings, and emotions, and as well understands the underlying causes respective of this issue, he or she is only trying to predicate their supposed ideas that could be completely untrue as far as we concerned.