Comments on: Professor Socrates is sooooo smart http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/05/16/professor-socrates-is-sooooo-smart/ Weblog about the Citizendium project and its Citizens. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:14:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Stephen Ewen http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/05/16/professor-socrates-is-sooooo-smart/#comment-12617 Stephen Ewen Wed, 16 May 2007 21:29:54 +0000 http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/05/16/professor-socrates-is-sooooo-smart/#comment-12617 That is indeed hilarious. It reminds me of http://shorterlink.org/2351 where the employment application of the 1st century figure Paul is roundly rejected. So long as one realizes the varied limitations of anonymous student evaluations of courses and instructors, and interpret the evaluations accordingly, I'm a huge advocate of them. I have always greatly enjoyed giving them as a student *and* receiving them as an instructor. That is indeed hilarious. It reminds me of http://shorterlink.org/2351 where the employment application of the 1st century figure Paul is roundly rejected.

So long as one realizes the varied limitations of anonymous student evaluations of courses and instructors, and interpret the evaluations accordingly, I’m a huge advocate of them. I have always greatly enjoyed giving them as a student *and* receiving them as an instructor.

]]> By: Stephen Ewen http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/05/16/professor-socrates-is-sooooo-smart/#comment-12619 Stephen Ewen Wed, 16 May 2007 22:13:08 +0000 http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/05/16/professor-socrates-is-sooooo-smart/#comment-12619 LOL...this was simply classic, as linked to in the original article: "He also talks a lot about things we haven't read for class and expects us to read all the readings on the syllabus even if we don't discuss them in class and that really bugs me. Students' only have so much time and I didn't pay him to torture me with all that extra crap." LOL…this was simply classic, as linked to in the original article:

“He also talks a lot about things we haven’t read for class and expects us to read all the readings on the syllabus even if we don’t discuss them in class and that really bugs me. Students’ only have so much time and I didn’t pay him to torture me with all that extra crap.”

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