The professors are there because of the number and quality of their publications, which in turn depends on the research they do on their own or supervise others to do. Quality of teaching hardly comes into it.
@@OM-wb3zi that makes no sense. Its a given that students are the one learning from professors. None of the students claimed they know better they just think the professor is really bad at teaching or they simply hate the class.
“What does that mean” It means that students are spending money that they barely have on mandatory textbooks that you don’t even utilize in the class and that sucks
@@seansurtz5528 I think a more sophisticated argument might be that many of the foremost scholars in a field are more interested in research than teaching (low-level) classes. They're known for being great researchers, not for being the most pedagogic people around. I'd argue this is a pretty common occurrence even at less prestigious institutions.
@Sean s You expect an applause for asserting that academic fields are "useless" without even bringing any arguments? I'm not sure you even know what the social sciences even are.
John Johnson well seeing that each professor had at most 2 negative comments (that had very bad insults) I’m going to assume they are good teachers and that the 1 or 2 students that said the class was boring/ is just a personal preference.
Exactly. All the pupils could fail and they'll still have a job. Meanwhile, a tutor/private school teacher would be in huge shit if the same thing happened to them because their income depends on happy customers so they actually have to give a damn.
It's because these professors aren't teaching children they don't need education degrees. They are communicating their knowledge of their field to a group of adults that paid to be here and are responsible for their own learning. This isn't High School, this isn't Middle School, and this sure as hell isn't elementary school. So if you're going to college you better get used to this and take some responsibility
seth manning Yes but look at how you started your sentence. Then remember the guy who started his sentence with "Didn't even open the book once". Mine you, according to my Comp 1 teacher you're wrong because you went with "I'm" instead of "I am" but.....again at least you used it. 😂 js. Mind you the only stupid ones in this ordeal imo are the Harvard student comments. 😊
Well, if you're ever feeling stupid or sad remember: people decided it would be wise to spend 750 million dollars on an ark museum....of an event that was never proven. 😂
you're not understanding my point, they're joking for crying out loud. The comp 1 teachers didn't say i'm is incorrect, or at least they shouldn't have, in informal speech, only in academic papers; In fact, it is used quite frequently in fiction. It's not an ordeal, it's a bunch of jokes.
Just watching this for laughs i go to a school in the south... And then I realized N. Gregory Mankiw wrote my Economics textbook. Okay Harvard, you win.
lol this is true. My friend is taking chemistry and is having a hard time understanding lectures, but she learns better watching RU-vid videos. Her teacher always sounds like he hates his job and very bored of the class himself
@@trust.it.444 I don't know what's worse, that or the ones who like teaching and are terrible at it. The only good thing about the pandemic is we have online classes now.
It’s probably even negatively correlated because if someone’s born smart they don’t know how to make ordinary people to understand the same thing they understand
I do agree with this, but it is not true for all Professors. It highly depends on the person, tentatively, I‘d argue that younger folks tend to be better at teaching, perhaps because they haven’t been giving the exact same lecture for 8 years.
RateMyProfs at Harvard: (a well written and clever rating of the teacher's class) RateMyProfs at my junior college: DONTTAKE THIS CLASS U WILL DIE' MY FRIEND TOOK THIS CLASS AND NOW SHE DED :(
vclarke4433 All of them are at the top of their respective academic fields; they'd have to be in order to be tenured professors at the best university in the world. Why would they care what some random students (albeit, Harvard students) think of them?
If Conan O' brien was still in harvard he would crack 100 times better insults than this. Doesn't harvard have a humor publication? Where the fuck are those guys?
Yea, they do have a humor publication (Harvard Lampoon). However, not every single student at Harvard is a humorist. And I'm pretty sure that the Lampoon writers probably have better stuff to do.....
@@crinky3907Oh, is that what you saw? What I saw was a teacher who couldn't get her head around a "student" who would sign up for a class, sit through the entire semester, and never once open up the textbook. I share her confusion. I can understand why a dropout would behave this way, but not a student.
You'd think Harvard students would use words like Cretinous, Inane, Moronic, and Other fancy words I looked up on Google but instead they say,"This Class Sucks"
Doesnt matter they dont need to flex to convey what can be conveyed by normal words. Yes I disagree the use of slants but this is literally modern day expression. Language can be anything society uses rather than it being of some systematic sort. Anyways they could have been a little bit respectful by stating their opinion in a bit detail but it is optional.
@@lordx4641 Dude I was Joking if you couldn't tell I obviously know that Harvard students are real people and that they use regular words, just a little humor
An atheist propagandist. I was forced to read one of his books, I think. Must be fun getting your book to be a best-seller because of students FORCED to buy 'em.
I wouldn't actually say quality is better, but statistics suggest that unless you go to Hollywood Movie Community College, you're probably going to get the same job and salary at the same time as any other place, assuming your grades are stellar.
The difference between ivy leagues and normal universities is simply brand recognition. For ivy leagues, you're paying for a brand. I have attended some lectures at ivy leagues, and they weren't much different from lectures at my university. It is more about the teacher than the university.
+Alex Nieto Again, simply brand recognition. Have you been to a community colege and a university both? I doubt you have, as if you did you'd know teachers at community college are student focused, whereas professors at university are research-focused. Prof's at community college prepare students with hands-on experience and life skills, as well as being more personal with students. University is highly impersonal - the professors are usually very busy with other things like research, and lecturing is just a side job to pay the bills. Before you accuse me of being insecure or something, I went to the college of engineering at the university of rhode island straight out of high school. I never went to community college but it would have helped with loans.
2007: Mankiw was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[71] 2009: Mankiw became president of the Eastern Economic Association; he succeeded Joseph Stiglitz and was followed by Paul Krugman.[72] 2011: A survey of economics professors named Mankiw their second favorite living economist under the age of 60, just after Paul Krugman and just before Daron Acemoglu.[73] 2012: The Princeton Review named Mankiw one of the 300 best professors in the nation.[74][75] 2014: Along with David Card, Mankiw was elected vice president of the American Economic Association.[76] 2017: The Council for Economic Education honored Mankiw with its Visionary Award.[77] 2019: Omicron Delta Epsilon, the international honor society for economics, awarded Mankiw the biennial John R. Commons Award.[78]
I know that there are gonna be students that complain about teachers at *every* uni, but as someone who went to a small uni in south Texas, I would LOVE the opportunity to sit through just one lecture at Harvard.
+Sandro Achilleus Yep. It's not much better than other schools. Of course, some employers will be impressed because they'll think just because you went to an ivy league school you must be smart, hardworking, or both. But it doesn't really prove either of those things. In fact, some of the worst people I've ever met went to Harvard. The most moronic, lazy, selfish people you've ever seen. And I'm talking about the good ones!
+ahyaok100 But you're just talking about the students. The econ professor shown here, G. Mankiw, is the guy that wrote 3 books that are standard issue in all universities at least in India, USA and Canada. These are just the countries that I know of. I'm sure there are many more. Moreover, he was the chairman of the CEA and was the chief economic advisor to Bush for 2 years. That's what a Harvard ticket gives you - a chance to be in his class. So yes, it IS that special.
0:30 sir I'm from India, I've read your all microeconomics and macroeconomics books. You're one of the greatest people in the field. I'd love to be in your class.
i feel like the quality of the comments say more about the student body than the content of the course. what's the acceptance rate to get into harvard again?
i dunno about now, but they also used to have that policy of accepting people to just get rid of them later, thus making those who graduated look more deserving/accomplished
This is very unfortunate. If only Harvard students had some special program where they could sit in on or "shop" many class and then pick the ones they liked the best.
They used to let you attend an introductory lecture at the beginning of term so you could decide if you *really* wanted to spend the term with *that* professor. Awards aren't everything: the lecture hall was packed for one professor's first lecture but was only sparsely filled from the second lecture to the end of the term (30 years ago). Let's face it: their most important job is to write books!
Really? These are called 'mean comments'? I been terrorized for 28 years now by bullies and complete assholes, I had to endure a lot worse. Those comments are similar to petting kittens.
I love learning. I love that so many class lectures from our great universities are being offered for free on line to people like me who will never have a chance to attend in person. Moan on, foolish children. Intelligent people see intelligence everywhere. Consider joining that group. I recognize the expense is great and alarming. Perhaps some of you need not worry about that, but I sense many of you are evaluating courses against that measure. Take up that financial challenge, embrace it, change the rules of cost, not the rules for creating an informed person. For every chair you sit in there are so many others who would willingly take your place, more than willingly pursue the state of being an informed, disciplined, authentic scholar. I sag and grow weary of the lost chances and missed opportunities for personal enlightenment these comments display. Students, do better. Be better. The rest of us are counting on you.
Harvard student: This professor is terrible! I’m definitely warning all my friends not to take him and post it in the group chat. Harvard professor: *Laughs in tenure*
college is way too easy for me right now-- like easier than high school. I kind of want to take one of these classes just to see how difficult they are.
Berry has worked on the script development for several major TV shows: Race, the Power of an Illusion in 2003 by PBS,[11] the 5-part Channel 4 DNA,[12] and NOVA's Lord of the Ants.[13] In 2013, along with George Beccaloni, curator with a special interest in Orthopteroidea and the Alfred Russel Wallace collections at the Natural History Museum, London, Berry narrated a short animated film for The New York Times to celebrate the Alfred Russel Wallace's centenary.[14]
Being a university professor or a teacher. U have to do ur best to let student understand the material. Some professor like jill strang is a gift for a student as he is very polite and approachable person.
Netzer’s works have been commissioned and performed by Ensemble Dal Niente, ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble), Patchwork, mezzo-soprano Lucy Dhegrae, bass David Salsbery Fry, saxophonists Kenneth Radnofsky, Doug O’Connor and Geoffrey Landman, Spektral Quartet, and Winsor Music, among many others, published by Edition Peters and earthsongs, and recorded on Bridge Records and New Focus Recordings. Her opera, The Wondrous Woman Within, was described as “riotously funny” in The New York Times when its first scene was performed at New York City Opera’s VOX festival in 2012 and “challenging and fascinating” by critic Amir Kidron when it received its World Premiere in a sold out run at Tel Aviv’s Cameri Theatre in 2015. As a pianist and performer, she regularly plays and conducts new music by fellow composers, as well as her own songs and compositions. Also a committed and passionate educator, Netzer teaches at The Walden School and has served on the faculties of New England Conservatory, Longy School of Music of Bard College and Harvard University.
I hate the fact that while this is literally how it goes for any university, the name Harvard in the title got it more views than what it otherwise would've got.
Some of them even can't help laughing themselves hahahahah. And I agree with Erick Romero, I thought the insults from Havard students were better ahahhahahhahhaah
In 2004, Pinker was named in Time's "The 100 Most Influential People in the World Today", and in the years 2005, 2008, 2010, and 2011 in Foreign Policy's list of "Top 100 Global Thinkers".[9] Pinker was also included in Prospect Magazine's top 10 "World Thinkers" in 2013.[10] He has won awards from the American Psychological Association, the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Institution, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and the American Humanist Association.[11][12][13][14][15] He delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 2013. He has served on the editorial boards of a variety of journals, and on the advisory boards of several institutions.[16] Pinker was the chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary from 2008 to 2018.[17]
A teacher is supposed to make it as easy as possible for students to learn hard things, people pay a lot of money for collage, the teachers work for the students not the other way around. Students should be able to choose between different teachers just like you can choose a different doctor at the hospital.
If you think that a University professor's job is to make things easy, I don't think that you understand the purpose of a college education. Or indeed, any efucation. The job of a teacher is to help you get to the point where you can do things that are hard. Maybe they will eventually become easy, but that isn't guaranteed to any of us.
