On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 09:40 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > As a graduate student, I was required to teach. It took a number of > years to figure it out, but I did figure out why I was a lousy > teacher. Everything I did in class reflected the attitude "It's > perfectly clear to me; what the f***'s wrong with you?" We had a teacher like that when I was college, and after a long time we (the class) ended up having an argument with him trying to understand something that he just wasn't teaching. His response was almost what you just said. And, he finally explained it, as well. We had a mixture of teachers at college: There were those that had come from university and into teaching, many of whom were hopeless at teaching. They may have known their stuff, and some really did, but were terrible at imparting their knowledge. A few that obviously did not know much about what they were teaching, and couldn't even answer anything you queried them about. And there were those that had come from industry, and were teaching us how to do what they used to do, and what we were going to do. They were the best teachers. I despise this move away from apprenticeships, where you're trained to do the job that you are actually going to do; to school based training for a job that you hope you might get, against hundreds or thousands of other applicants, and where the teaching is way too theoretical, and often impractical. And I consider it to be cruel to put a hundred students through three, or more, years of schooling where there was only ever going to employment for a mere handful of them across the state. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
