Comments on: The Ideal Teacher http://www.educatednation.com/2009/12/07/the-ideal-teacher/ A higher education blog about news, humor, advice, and opinion on education, college degrees, university life and careers. Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:03:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.educatednation.com/2009/12/07/the-ideal-teacher/comment-page-1/#comment-137353 admin Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:49:49 +0000 http://www.educatednation.com/?p=1053#comment-137353 SCP! Oh how I've missed you and your hilarious, above-average commentary. Yes, Blaisdell was being humorous (and possibly a little bit snarky). I couldn't bring myself to pass on posting about it. The detail he went into with regard to perfection, even down to the impossible minutiae, was so funny. I've had many a shiny robot for a professor; seemingly inhuman and perfect, but rarely adored. It never had anything to do with the level to which the prof did or didn't give away the possibility that he was a mere mortal; the status of Ideal Teacher consistently came from a professor's obvious love of, involvement with, and curiosity about his area of study, and the willingness he had to share his knowledge and exuberance for it. Take care, Alexa SCP! Oh how I’ve missed you and your hilarious, above-average commentary. Yes, Blaisdell was being humorous (and possibly a little bit snarky). I couldn’t bring myself to pass on posting about it. The detail he went into with regard to perfection, even down to the impossible minutiae, was so funny.

I’ve had many a shiny robot for a professor; seemingly inhuman and perfect, but rarely adored. It never had anything to do with the level to which the prof did or didn’t give away the possibility that he was a mere mortal; the status of Ideal Teacher consistently came from a professor’s obvious love of, involvement with, and curiosity about his area of study, and the willingness he had to share his knowledge and exuberance for it. Take care,

Alexa

]]> By: Simple Country Physicist http://www.educatednation.com/2009/12/07/the-ideal-teacher/comment-page-1/#comment-136171 Simple Country Physicist Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:11:11 +0000 http://www.educatednation.com/?p=1053#comment-136171 Puppy Pellets. Are you sure this is not intended as humorous? It is so stereotypically English Department/New Yawk City/liberal academic messiah/... that it lacks credibility just as it oozes arrogance. I recall my New World Archaeology professor, David Dejarnette the Elder, who was also curator of Moundville at the time and who had been stationed in the China-Burma-India theater of operations during the Great Patriotic War ate a broiled onion every day at luncheon in the student union cafeteria. After I got to know him well enough to be nekulturny and asked he confided that in that theater daily consumption of such prevented infestation by "intestinal parasites" and liking the taste had continued with it. This did nothing to diminish his effectiveness nor respect among his students. The banana puddings daily while on digs did however. Puppy Pellets. Are you sure this is not intended as humorous? It is so stereotypically English Department/New Yawk City/liberal academic messiah/… that it lacks credibility just as it oozes arrogance.

I recall my New World Archaeology professor, David Dejarnette the Elder, who was also curator of Moundville at the time and who had been stationed in the China-Burma-India theater of operations during the Great Patriotic War ate a broiled onion every day at luncheon in the student union cafeteria. After I got to know him well enough to be nekulturny and asked he confided that in that theater daily consumption of such prevented infestation by “intestinal parasites” and liking the taste had continued with it. This did nothing to diminish his effectiveness nor respect among his students.

The banana puddings daily while on digs did however.

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