I had a math professor like that for Probability and Statistics, which was, a junior or senior level class. He was the only one who taught that class and he literally told us on the first day of class that he believed that all students were either stupid or lazy until they proved otherwise.
Another professor, who taught math theory, was a very nice guy, but couldn't teach students who weren't already at his level. Our first exam, the entire class had extremely low scores, so low that he wasn't willing to grade on a curve and kept telling us for weeks that he didn't know what he was going to do about them. I'd gotten a 20% on the test, which is probably the lowest test score I ever got in my life. I decided 1) I wasn't learning anything, and 2) I couldn't handle the suspense of waiting for him to come up with our grades, and dropped the class. Afterward, I went to his office to let him know and he burst out, "But, you had the best score!"
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Date: 2009-01-16 02:23 am (UTC)Another professor, who taught math theory, was a very nice guy, but couldn't teach students who weren't already at his level. Our first exam, the entire class had extremely low scores, so low that he wasn't willing to grade on a curve and kept telling us for weeks that he didn't know what he was going to do about them. I'd gotten a 20% on the test, which is probably the lowest test score I ever got in my life. I decided 1) I wasn't learning anything, and 2) I couldn't handle the suspense of waiting for him to come up with our grades, and dropped the class. Afterward, I went to his office to let him know and he burst out, "But, you had the best score!"