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Originally Posted by neil w
My first degree is from OU and i took Fears' course on ancient Rome. He was truly a gifted speaker, and he had that knack for making complex things easy to understand. The class was actually in an auditorium for a thousand people and there were more standing in the aisles. he was so talented professors were jealous of him and criticized him for being an entertainer rather than a scholar.
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He is very pleasant to listen too... but he just nudges you to read them for oneself. In my opinion he doesn't have the depth in his lectures on the teaching company. He passed away not too long ago... I learned a lot by him and I picked up a few books because of him too. Great, passionate professor.
In one of his lectures on confucious he goes off on a diatribe comparing confucious, jesus and Socrates as the greatest teachers. That one lecture more than any other had my hand on my chin thing "hmmm".
Lucky bastard!