Casually Dressed Profs Haven’t Matured

Re “The Fashion-Minded Professor” (Sept. 1): These are the same so-called students of the late ‘60s and ‘70s who rebelled about dress, classes, standards and learning. They haven’t changed nor grown up since the days I taught in university. Yet they cry all the time about not being treated like professionals.

Why should they be? They lack maturity, taste and an honest desire to leave a better place for students. I’m sure they feel proud that they still do as they choose and to hell with standards of any kind.

Class, taste and maturity mark a truly educated person.

JEANETTE G. TURNER

Claremont

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Gaile Robinson’s article was, perhaps unwittingly, one of the saddest comments on the current decline on the quality of education.

Clothes do help make the man. A university-level instructor’s main function should be the seamless placement of knowledge into the brains of the students.

This function would seemingly be more successful if the instructor is dressed for the job as is Judge Lance Ito, an airline pilot, any policeman.

JOHN D. ANDREWS

Rancho Palos Verdes