Best professor you've ever had and why

Magnetron
Mon, 07 Aug 2017 20:58:16 +0000

Robert Resnick of the Resnick and Halliday physics text led my Physics 101 discussion section my first semester at RPI. Brilliant, caring, and very funny. It was pretty much downhill from there.

The most impactful professor I had was a course I took on a lark at SUNY Binghamton taught by Sid Thomas, Professor of Philosophy who taught a variety of courses on religion and history. He was controversial and nearly fired. What he really taught was how to dig down under the information that is presented, how it is presented to make us think and feel a certain way, just how manipulatable the human mind can be. How a lie repeated becomes truth. I have never since looked at a newspaper without thinking about that course.