Why don't more students demand "I want to be taught by people demonstrably good at what they do"?
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Great prof on okay subject >> okay prof on "great" subject. Or to put it another way, the great profs made me realize I was very interested in things I didn't know I loved. Whereas the mediocre ones put me to sleep on subjects that should have been
A pretty common faculty retort is "students don't know how to select good profs". While that's sometimes true, overall I'm very unsympathetic. Even if they _are_ bad at it, the way they'll get better is by doing it & reflecting on it.
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You are exactly right. Student evaluations can be a decent instrument (especially the comments) when the questions are right, but they never ask whether a professor is striving to be great or knows what greatness is.
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I think it also depends on what the students want. Technical competence? Inspiration and motivation from wonder and curiosity? Credentials? I feel like we're mostly discussing the 2nd.
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