> > There are only three professors that I can think of (all three from 
> > unrelated disciplines) that both knew the material, and 
> were good at 
> > teaching.
> 
> Yes, I had a few also. Most failed to make tenure and eventually left
> the university for which I was working.

At the university I attended there happened to be a few professors left
from the early days of computing. I recall 4 of them, all with at least
some (national, maybe even some international) reputation, and all IMHO
very good instructors. vdPoel constructed one of the first computers in
my country, Hertzberg was know for the computer break-ins he let his
students perform for getting a grade, <forgot his name> had been
involved in PDP-11 development, and Meertens was one of the developers
of ABC, which eventually evolved into Python.

But there were also large numbers of pure nitwits who could only recite
the course material. But shit happens, everywhere.

Wouter van Ooijen

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