Learning to comprehend

Now that you've watched the Paper Chase as demanded, I shall share with you tidbits about this new professor I have. Everyone that enters law school hears some sort of horror story about the mystery of the beast. Well, this may be the semester that I actually experience some of these frightful moments. She's just like the Contracts professor in the Paper Chase. When this woman enters the room, the crowd goes silent...and it has nothing to do with good looks. She starts with a lecture covering the areas of law that we will be discussing. Then she continues with, "Please open your case books to da, da, da, da."

Note: Names are obviously changed for confidentiality reasons. The dialog is not exact, but somewhat on par.

"You! In the green shirt, what's your name?"
The startled student says, "John."
She replies with, "I don't care about your first name. I want to know your last name."
"Ummm, then it would be Doe."
"Well, okay Mr. Doe. What is the rule applied in this case?"
As he thumbs through his notes, he fails to come up with the correct answer. She says, "It looks like Mr. Doe is unprepared. Shall we move onto someone else." She then roamed around the room and called on someone else that successfully answered her question. Once that question was answered, she fired right back at Mr. Doe. Unable to answer the next question, she states, "You expect to be a lawyer, eh? You must understand the law and be able to comprehend these things."

After chastising one student, she moves on to another. When she discovers a weak link, she does everything she can to break it. Once she makes someone feel like an idiot, she scavenges the room in the hunt for another. The whole time in class, everyone just wants to get the hell out of there in fear that they might be next. This is an everyday thing. She does this in every class. I'm sure my turn is coming soon.