Comments on: Socrates’ Teaching Evaluations

By: Tano

Tano — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:28:57 +0000

Most of those are pretty funny. The last one is really lame.

By: Signifying Nothing

Signifying Nothing — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:36:16 +0000

Greek Professor Gets Mixed Evals...

This Chronicle piece including some “student evaluations” of Socrates has been getting a bit of play around the blogosphere and is pretty damn funny. I thought this was the funniest part: He always keeps talking about these figures in a cave, like ...

By: carpeicthus

carpeicthus — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:48:27 +0000

You should see how he'd fare on RateYourProfessor.com

By: jpe

jpe — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:13:27 +0000

Socrates does sound like a pompous ass. I side with the satirical students. That hemlock couldn't have come quickly enough for the sensible people of Athens.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:43:08 +0000

From what I have read on Socrates, I probably would have like him as a professor. I had professors that I like whom were more concern with expanding the mind then shoving an particular view down your throat or proving how smart they were. Unfortunately most of the professor I had didn’t fall under this category. They were more concern with indoctrination and ego trips than anything else.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:22:22 +0000

I did miss a parody of the typical "offended fundamentalist" evaluation, all about how Socrates called the sun just a stone ... or maybe he was just quoting Anaxagoras on that, but either way, it was VERY OFFENSIVE.

By: bob in fl

bob in fl — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:21:00 +0000

Yeah. The Hemlock was his final student evaluation.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:16:47 +0000

IIRC Socrates got hemlock rather than tenure.