'As I recall from my own college days, the “genius” professors weren’t always as predictable or pleasant as those who seemed more devoted to the teaching profession than to their own ideas. But I remember them better. The feet of an impassioned, bizarre, and brilliant professor were worth sitting at. They (the professors, not the feet) challenged my perception of what reasoning was, what it meant to have an independent mind'. --
The New Yorker
With this stated, what do you remember from these "genius" professors you encountered during your own studies?
ReplyDeleteMore to the point, I am wondering whether the more well known professors in the field were also the better ones in the classroom. I know that some of the more widely read folks I studied with were horrible in the classroom, focused so much on their own ideas that they rather thought those of us in class were a bother. Ironically, some of the ones I expected the least from were the ones who delivered the most!
Jeffrey