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One of the things that struck me the most about this essay is how clear it is how much professors learn from students.  It's funny because today I had a guest lecture in a class who told us that he was going to try to make the class more interactive than we might be used to, as to not only keep it interesting for us, but for him too.  And I had a professor walk into class last week, saying she was bored with the class, and so the class we had that day was very out of the ordinary.  And thinking back, that class was very interdisciplinary, bringing culture and music into my political science class. 

The idea as the professors as observers struck me, because I have always found my professors to be the main participant in my classes.  Is that the role they should be taking?  Should they be a participant at all?  Should they just sit back and let everything happen or should they guide the way?