George is right that the worth of a course is difficult to quantify and that small classes taught by tenured professors do not necessarily worthwhile courses make. But the public ought better to be able to rely on a professor’s departmental peers and campus administrators to judge the value of a course and the teaching of it, whether the class has advanced student learning, and even whether it should exist in the first place. For peer and administrative oversight to become more rigorous, those responsible for judging their fellow professors must themselves be capable of ascertaining quality. Many of these evaluators these days seem incapable or unwilling to insist on or even define educational quality.