RIP

Prof. Rufus Fears died yesterday. He had 13 Great Courses to his teaching credit. He was 67. Sad.

I am sorry to hear that. At first, I thought your message meant that the Teaching Company had gone out of business.

Sorry to alarm you. That would have been headline news, at least around here!

Sorry to hear about the passing of Dr. Fears. Personally, I did not favor his lecture style, but he was a smart guy and he had lots and lots of fans.

I thought about that reality Garp, but decided too leave it to you to speak ill of the dead. ;)

(Don't flag this; we're buds...)

Yeah, he wasn't my favorite prof either, but when I read about it, it still felt like "Hey -- I knew that guy. I took some of his classes!"

Yeah man I felt the same way. And I know a lot of people really enjoyed his stuff -- it was just too folksy and anecdotal for my taste