Tomc938
Ultra Member
I actually had an English prof I really appreciated in University. And this is from someone that got kicked out of grade 11 English - it was the teacher's fault, honest!All profs want to hear is their own BS repeated.
We had a fairly large section of the course studying a book called "The Magus." The prof actually did his PhD on how the book was basically a retelling of some Shakespeare play or something like that, and pulled out all the parallels. We had to do a term paper on the book, and he met with each of us to see where were we going to go with the paper, and give any advise he thought might be helpful.
My time came to meet with him, and I told him I didn't think his thesis was correct and I didn't agree with the connections he made in our discussions in class. He told me something along the line of "Well, if that's what you think, make your argument in your paper."
Got an A on it. Had a lot of respect for that guy. (But you are right, in most classes they want little parrots)