Pretty funny evaluations, especially the last one about him stealing his ideas from the African people. Do you have any personal opinions on them?

They'd all be right, too. You would learn a lot from hanging around Socrates but his method would annoy you to hell.

How quaint that the author if the Chronicle article believes that student evaluations can make or break a professor. I've taught now at 5 different colleges universities. Student evaluations were conducted at all of them, and at several some attention was even paid to the numerical portion of the evaluations. But in no case did anyone other than the professor actually see the student comments.

Professor Socrates is a great expert in the field but his ideas are outmoded. It is sad that the tenure system keeps people entrenched so they don't have to change with the times, and incorporate new developments. I enjoyed the intro course I had with him, but I wouldn't bother to take any advanced work with him, or ask him to be on my thesis committee.

Socrates spent a lot of time rambling on about esoteric stuff that wasn't on the exam. He had no apparent grading policy, so you wouldn't know how to prepare. For non-majors it just isn't clear how any of this will help with getting into grad school.