The 70 professors at the Ateneo de Manila’s Graduate School of Business should be the last people to complain about the impending closure of the school (BT, Mar.4).

First, of all the Ateneo faculty members, they are the ones best qualified to survive on the mean street of the real world. Having taught hundred of students how to make oodles of money, they should not feel threatened at all by the prospect of practising what they have taught.

Second, they are the faculty members most hireable. Their former students, most of them presumably satisfied with training they received, should only be too happy to hire their professors as consultants or even upper-level managers, confident that they shall make significant contributions to whatever company is lucky enough to hire them.

But if these professors can’t make a living in the real world or if their former students don’t think they’re worth hiring, they have no business teaching in a graduate school of business ... and a school which has such professors on the faculty has no business remaining in business.

RUBEN N. MUEGO