In the business world it’s common practice to seek feedback from stakeholders and customers to evaluate our performance. By sending out a short survey we hope our customers will tell us something about our product or service so astounding, so unexpected that we’ll be able to completely regenerate the fortunes of our organisation. We seek for nuggets of wisdom like miners panning for gold.
“The end of term is nearly here,” said my supervising teacher. “Let’s survey the class and see what they think about your teaching so far.”
Question: What did you enjoy about the class?
Answer: Watching YouTube.
Question: What didn’t you like about the class?
Answer: Writing stuff.
Question: What other topics would you like to study in this class?
Answer: I don’t know.
To be honest, not all the responses were this brief. But they were all interesting.
[Punctuation on the answers above was added by me].