German University sues student for graduating too fast!!!

I thought performance was rewarded. How wrong I was!!! Check this university!!

A private German economics and business university is suing one of its students for lost income after he finished his Bachelors and Masters degrees in about a quarter of the normal time.

Marcel Pohl completed 60 examinations in 20 months, gaining a grade of 2.3, and was officially ex-matriculated in August 2011. Such a course usually takes 11 semesters, but he only needed three.
Now the Essen-based School of Economics and Management (FOM) want the 22-year-old to pay his fees up the end of 2011 - an extra €3,000.
"When I got the lawsuit, I thought it couldn't be true," Pohl, who now works for a bank in Frankfurt, told the Bild newspaper. "Performance is supposed to be worth something." 

And how they devised how to finish their degree fast???

Pohl completed his turbo degree by dividing up all the simultaneous lectures with two friends and then swapping notes. At the same time, he completed an apprenticeship in a bank.
"We didn't get any freebies, and we agreed our plans in advance with the school," Pohl said.
"We're always against slow students," said his lawyer Bernhard Kraas. "But when someone hurries and finishes early, suddenly he has to pay. That can't be right." 

Good on them. They should commend him instead of taking him to court.

Greedy universities, they have lost their mission, of innovation, not just making money.

I teach theology. That means…

• …half the time I don’t even know where my Bible is, let alone read it.

• …I think reading a verse in context means finding it in my favorite systematic theology book.

• …I get paid to start fights.

• …deep down I wish I had a cool-sounding German name.

• …my only friends have all been dead for 1000 years.

• …I’m right. Always.

• …I enjoy sucking all the mystery out of life.

• …real people confuse me.

• …I’m not even sure what “exegesis” is.

• …I spend most of my time thinking up alien categories to impose on the text.

• …I’m not even sure what ministry is.

• …I’m not truly happy until I’ve confused someone.

• …I think the fruit of the spirit is arrogance, strife, certainty, intelligence, perseverance (in study), loneliness, literacy, irrelevance, and stubbornness.

• …my favorite books are…never mind, you wouldn’t understand them anyway.

• …I’ve been trained to speak unintelligibly whenever possible.

• …no one likes me but I’m so bad with people that I don’t notice.

• …I think anyone who disagrees with me is a pagan, heretic, unbeliever, Cowboys fan, or some combination of the above.

• …I confuse belief with knowledge and speculation with reality.

• …if you saw how I dressed you’d swear I was colorblind.

Via Marc Cortez.