"in order to teach this you sometimes need to make students feel somewhat uncomfortable" https://www.reddit.com/r/UMD/comments/46s9mn/hesp120_teacher_strongly_disagreed_with_a_student/d07nu1v …
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Replying to @St_Rev
Speaking as a defrocked professor, you have the right to make students miserable in one and only one way: by making them work. 2/n
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Replying to @St_Rev
When you start thinking your job means making students feel small for crossing you, you need to quit immediately. 3/n
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Replying to @St_Rev
The instructor in the recording is awful, but this defense comes a department chair at a research university? Fucking hell. 4/n
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Replying to @St_Rev
It is really tempting to think that you're browbeating students for their own good. And it's poison. Abuse doesn't facilitate learning. 5/n
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