Kurt Harden at Cultural Offering remembers some extraordinary professors from his college days.
I had some amazing professors. In those days, there were fewer required classes and you could pack in a wide variety of subjects. My undergraduate degree was in Government and my minor was History and yet I took classes in Roman, Soviet, American, French, Mexican, English, and Russian history and several subcategories such as the History of the French Revolution. That's in addition to classes in Humanities, Introduction to Government, American Government, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Soviet Foreign Policy, American Foreign Policy, the American Presidency, Public Administration, Political Philosophy, Public Opinion and Polling, Economics, Comparative Government, and a slew of others.
It was like being in a candy store.
A common characteristic of the great professors: a mixture of solid subject matter knowledge, teaching expertise, tolerance for dissenting opinions, and a love of the material.
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