professor holds toddler so student can remain in lecture

[Liberal_in_LA]

This is the touching moment a professor held a student's baby during class so she wouldn't have to leave mid-lecture.
Sydney Engelberg, a social psychologist at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, scooped up the baby after it started to cry during his organizational behavior class.
The 67-year-old native of South Africa who has taught for 45 yeas and has five grandchildren, teaches in the master's degree program, which means he has plenty of older students.


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[Gothmog]

1. This makes me smile

Thanks for posting

[Faux pas]

2. Love it!

Good on him!

[petronius]

3. Good for him! That's really cute... (nt)

[daleanime]

4. Now that is a cool professor.

[Lilith Rising]

5. Which gives credence to the notion

that it does (or should anyway) take a village.

[GP6971]

11. Huh?

[Lilith Rising]

13. As in - it does (or should) take

community involvement to look after kids.

I mean it was no big deal for the prof (in this case) to deal with the kid so that everyone, including his/her mother, could continue on with what they were all there to do.

[GP6971]

15. Got it. Thanks

[Lilith Rising]

14. And if this helps

[jtuck004]

6. How much is tuition there? Compared to here? n/t

[Mosby]

9. if you agree to spend a couple more years in the IDF it's free

Otherwise it's about $2900 per year at the public universities.

[Aerows]

7. Sadly

this isn't in the US.

Who thinks this would happen in the US?

[1939]

8. Used to be

professors in the US were very collegial with the students (even the freshman). They have just become more and more arrogant and condescending over the last fifty years. One of my professors and his wife kindly drove my fiance to a football game (I had to ride on the student bus (no dates allowed). I was the student manager for the cross country, indoor, and outdoor track teams and when we had a home meet, I had to find enough professors willing to give up their Friday evening and Saturday afternoon and evening to be timers and judges. I was usually able to find enough in a couple of free class periods. One I could always count on to participate used to kick me out of his office saying, "you better not give me the f------g high jump".

[Vattel]

16. Most professors I know are very collegial. I doubt that as a group they are

"more arrogant and condescending" now than 50 years ago. Did you just make that up, or do you have evidence?

[1939]

17. Grad school ten years after undergraduate

Professors I have known who were co-members of the Army Reserve and trying to get in contact with them during working hours.

Professors i have met doing government contract work for my agency.

Review boards I have sat on reviewing results of studies done by academics and their defense of their studies.

Engineering and scientific society symposia.

[Vattel]

18. I guess my experiences are very different than yours.

If anything, I think professors tend these days to be too friendly to their students. It almost seems like pandering sometimes.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. I once had to bring my, then 3-year-old, daughter to final exams with me.

My creative writing prof was incredible with her. They had this crazy amazing chat about all manner of things while I finished the exam. It doesn't happen often, but it happens.

[petronius]

19. I have had infants and toddlers in my classroom on more than one occasion,

usually in a (computer) lab section, but sometimes in lecture. It has yet to cause a problem. I'd never do what this professor did, though: my experience of children is so limited that I'd be certain to drop, terrify, or juggle the child, or inadvertently use it as an eraser or something...

The question hasn't come up for me in a few years though, for two reasons I think:
1) our on-campus child care has improved (that's a good thing), and
2) the number of returning and non-traditional--i.e. older--students seems to have declined (that's a bad thing).

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. Hahaha...

Although babies always seem most interested in the people who are afraid they might drop them...somewhat like cats being attracted to people who don't like cats.

Before he became an adept dad, my fearful husband was a baby magnet.

[Omaha Steve]

12. K&R!