Re:Yale students made a better version of its course catalog...
by bertil on Monday January 20, 2014 @01:15PM
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No sweeping generalisation: I simply wrote that academic executives react badly (all of them) to senior teachers (some of them) having a break-down after reading poorly written and spiteful reviews (no matter how few of them there are, and there always are some in a campus the size of Yale).
> Some teachers ARE lousy.
Very much so — I am one, and I’ve always told that most of my teachers at my school were criminally bad. (I did take steps to have some of them sent to jail.) I do not remember arguing the opposite.
Some teachers ARE lousy. And some teachers present the course material in an engaging, captivating manner.
And yes, some students are lazy. But others want to learn, preferably from the latter type of professor. Labeling any student who forms an opinion about a professor as an "entitled [student] who failed after submitting a paper a month late" reveals a lack of faith in the ability of a young adult to take a genuine interest in his educational experience.