Sad but true.
Another example of a double bind is a teacher who urges his students to participate in class but gets impatient if one of them actually interrupts with a question or comment. Then a baffling thing happens. For some strange reason that scientists have yet to decipher, students tend not to speak up in classes in which their comments are disparaged. When the professor finally does get around to asking for questions and no one responds, he gets angry. ("Students are so passive!") If any of the students have the temerity to comment on the professor's lack of receptivity, he'll probably get even angrier. Thus the students will be punished for accurately perceiving that the teacher really wants only his own ideas to be heard and admired. (This example is, of course, purely hypothetical.) (Nichols, 2007, p. 14)
I actually got a good laugh out of the last line of this paragraph in one of my text books for this semester. I had a professor exactly like that last semester. No one bothered to point out the contradiction in her request for student feedback and her behavior upon the receipt of said feedback. After the first few times she ignored raised hands until she had finished her spiel, we just gave up. We're not talking about finishing a sentence here. Sometimes 10 - 15 minutes would pass before she would ask for questions. She'd have moved on to a completely different topic and there didn't seem to be much point. Then there were the times where she was flat out wrong: trying to suggest that the superconscious is like the super-ego, for example. Not. When we told her she was incorrect, she couldn't even admit to having made a booboo, much less that she was wrong.
Fate has conspired against me, and I have her again this semester. By the time I got registered, hers was the only section left. There are twelve of us in the class. The other sections are packed. Can't imagine why. The other professors have suggested that people could transfer in to our section so that they could enjoy a smaller class size.
Call me crazy, but I just don't see that happening.