As we noticed within the dialogue of final week’s post about Harry Frankfurt’s recollections of Max Black, a few of you recall hard-ass professors you had as being amongst your handiest academics and also you consider them with appreciation and fondness—and a few of you, not a lot. Regardless of this distinction, one factor appears to be sure: a lot of you have got been poked with the sharp finish of some professor’s pointed comment.
[photo by J. Weinberg]
Noticing this, John Doris wrote in with a prompt subject for dialogue: examples of one of the best of the “worst” suggestions you’ve obtained from academics while you have been a pupil.
What we’re searching for is probably the most outrageous or harsh or humorous or insulting or impolite or clever-at-your-expense or ridiculous or devastating or infuriating remarks academics made to you in response to your written work, participation at school, remark in workplace hours, query at a chat, general efficiency as a pupil, and so on.
Let’s hear them. And for those who really feel like sharing whether or not they have been useful, hurtful, each, neither, or one thing else, you’re welcome to.
