Teacher, You Suck

Stanley Fish does not like student evaluations of college teaching. No, sir: "The evaluation forms have been revised and supposedly refined, but in general the revisions have followed political and sociological trends rather than any advance in our understanding of what is and is not good teaching... The majority of the questions encourage and reward behavior that is at best questionable. Were students invited to share their ideas and knowledge? Given that the point of a course is to improve student knowledge, it makes some sense to gauge the extent (or lack) of it at the outset of instruction; but surely one doesn't want student knowledge to be a major ingredient in a course, and as for 'sharing' it, that is an activity that belongs in the coffee shop or dorm room, not in a classroom."