[SuziQ]

I wasn't necessarily talking about politics, I was just talking about attitudes and condescencion, which I guess could be applied to profs in just about any discipline if they think theirs is the 'best'.

[Corin Stormhands]

I wasn't necessarily talking about politics...

But Jen was.

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, that's true.... there are good and bad teachers just like there are good and bad cops, programmers and secretaries. To be good at teaching something is an entirely different skill than to be good at doing something.

My most obnoxious prof in all of college was in flight engineering. He told graphic sex jokes that even the guys in class thought were more off-color than they thought funny.... the ones that are just gross. I was the only girl in class... and he'd say "I probably shouldn't tell this with Miss Hair in the room" before launching into it.

I don't know if he was trying to intimidate me, but I think he was. I'm no delicate flower. I didn't see it as a threat to my conscience, I just loathed him as a person.