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Zé Tahir

Zé Tahir

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Martin said:
The absolute majority of teachers in higher education are not profs, they're faux profs.
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I didn't know what you meant until I looked up the definition of the word and found this:

The term "professors" in the United States refers to a group of educators at the college and university level
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Over we just call anyone who teaches at a college/uni a professor.
 
Martin

Martin

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Zé Tahir said:
I didn't know what you meant until I looked up the definition of the word and found this:



Over we just call anyone who teaches at a college/uni a professor.
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"professor" is a title, like "doctor". You can call your medicine man or your spiritual healer a "doctor", but that doesn't make him a certified medical doctor.

Out of the dozen or so instructors I've had in college only 3 were actual professors. We didn't call them that thou, we called them by their first names.
 
Fred

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Martin said:
"professor" is a title, like "doctor". You can call your medicine man or your spiritual healer a "doctor", but that doesn't make him a certified medical doctor.

Out of the dozen or so instructors I've had in college only 3 were actual professors. We didn't call them that thou, we called them by their first names.
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Oh is that what you mean.


We don't call doctors professors here, we call a doctor a doctor and a professor a professor. I've only been taught by one professor, the rest were all doctors.
 
Martin

Martin

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Fred said:
Oh is that what you mean.


We don't call doctors professors here, we call a doctor a doctor and a professor a professor. I've only been taught by one professor, the rest were all doctors.
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I meant as in medical doctor, which is the most common meaning. But of course doctor also has the meaning you use here.
 
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