A person proposes in the letter that professors' evaluations become publicly available to

all. The letter says this will motivate teachers to improve their teaching methods. Also, future

students would have a better perspective in choosing which courses to take. However, the

woman in the conversation disagrees with the proposal and thinks this would not work for two

reasons. First, professors might not like their teaching styles to be criticized publicly, and they

probably wouldn't read evaluations at all; as a result, they would never improve or change their

ways of teaching. Secondly, since students are asked to conduct the evaluations right on the last

day of their classes, they usually don’t spend enough time on them. As a result, the evaluations

would not contain helpful information for future students.