So a recent youtube video has popped up of a professor who started yelling at a student who had yawned loudly in class. Link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuLaQoQP9oo
Now, I am all for respecting etiquette in the classroom. However, it is another thing to say the professor is completely at fault here. Too many times have I seen students who act in class as if they are entitled to act in a classroom as if they were in their own home. Sure, we students pay for lectures, but that allows us to not come to lecture, not listen, and browse on Facebook silently while in class. But that does not allow us to loudly disrupt the class atmosphere. I am severely disappointed to see that students act with such disregard for basic respect in the classroom.
Not that say that the professor is completely at fault either. His conduct, while in the correct direction, was taken to an unnecessary degree. It is important to still retain a respectable image in front of students. Nonetheless, we are still human.
