'elp! 'elp! I'm being oppressed!
Pocahontas and I are fans of the Teaching Company courses of Rufus Fears, a classics scholar at the University of Oklahoma. I googled Dr. Fears and found this scathing review on ratemyprofessor.com:
He isn't interested in teaching, he's interested in making you believe what he believes. He's full of himself, rude, and narrow minded. WORST CLASS EVER. The only people who love him are those who agree with him or are too weak-minded to think for themselves.
The class that inspired this review?
Latin.
"OMG! Dude totally wouldn't consider my original thinking on the fifth declension! He was all, like, his way was the right way."
(Yeah, I realize the student's complaint isn't so ridiculous on the face of it given the discussion of Roman culture a Latin class would include. But that's not funny.)
=v= Grrl Friday teaches Latin. Imagine graduate-level students who haven't learned the grammar and therefore haven't learned the nuances and meaning of what they're reading. But arguing what they thought they read anyway, since their GPA is at stake.
Posted by Jym
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July 20 2009 22:53