Lou, go beyond being liked and focus on being the instructor that demands the best out of your students. Students may like instructors that do not challenge them or take them outside of their comfort zones but they come to love those instructors that take their learning to a new level and allow them to achieve results they never thought possible. In some situations, their instructor is the only person in their circle of influence that challenge them to move beyond the simple and easy and achieve success at higher levels that will assist them later in their lives. The single greatest experience an instructor can experience is observing their students during a graduation ceremony more than receiving a course evaluation where all the marks are high because the instructor is "liked" by the students. I would rather graduate all of my students that have a single student think of me as their friend. James Jackson