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Re:The Professor as Open Book by dhimes on Saturday March 22, 2008 @07:55AM (#143260)
Interesting to see how this will play out. Professors are divided on the issue of how much to bare. There are those who feel that not being seen as an infallible guru takes away their prestige--even to the point of advising other instructors to never admit they don't know something. Others, like me, take a more "I'm human too" approach.
Re:The Professor as Open Book by yummyfajitas on Saturday March 22, 2008 @10:38AM (#143307)
I try to seem human, because I don't want my students to think that infallible guru's exist. Plus, many "infallible gurus" are real dicks.

Several times, I've gotten student evaluations like this:

"This prof rocks. When I pointed out a problem with my midterm, he immediately fixed his mistake and apologized. How awesome is that? "