Why Johnny can't teach (?)

As part of a longer online discussion, Bill Deresiewicz (formerly Yale) and Mark Edmundson (Virginia) talk about how universities encourage bad teaching. (You might remember Bill as the Ivy League apparatchik who couldn't talk to his plumber.) Among the complaints about consumerist university culture and the blind acceptance of tenure and other administrative processes, they refer to Mark Oppenheimer's article on student evaluations in this week's new York Times Magazine.