Teachers and Ties

Having had my first full week of classes and having walked around the Erasmus Universiteit campus a lot, I think there’s definitely a noticeable difference between going to university in Denmark and in the Netherlands (and most likely many other places, like the U.S.): the male teachers wear ties to class!

In Denmark, you never experience a professor wearing a tie to class – never! Only external lecturers, e.g. attorneys, wear ties to class.

In the Netherlands, in two of my four classes the professors wore a tie. One of classes was taught by a woman and in my last class the external lecturer, an international lawyer, surprisingly didn’t wear a tie.

It would be nice if professors wore ties to class more often in Denmark, at least at law school (the humanities students don’t know what a tie is anyway J). I think it’s cool.