[TheForge] Re: OT now teaching

[Washington, Aubrey O.]

Once when I was an undergraduate, on the first day of a large lecture class I was taking, the professor began by holding up the textbook and saying, "I have never taught this course before, and I just found out last Thursday that I would be teaching it.  This is your textbook for the class.  I'm on page 250; you're on page 1.  Read like hell and see if you can catch me."  As it turned out, he was an excellent professor and I enjoyed the class.

Aubrey
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From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer [mspencer at tallships.ca]
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:24 PM
To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [TheForge] Re: OT now teaching

> It is one way for a teacher to find out if he has students in
> a class that know more than he does  :)

Long ago I went to a week-long workshop (were you there, too: :-)
where it became apparent to the instructor, in the first few minutes
of nattering before the first session even began, that the
participants were, um, more advanced than had been expected.

So the instructor got everyone's attention and said, "How many of you
know how to make a fishtail scroll?"  All but four people raised their
hands.  Then he said, "You four that didn't raise your hands, come
over to this forge in the corner and I'll try to teach you something.
The rest of you, get to work and teach each other stuff because you
probably know more than I do about blacksmithing." (Or words to the
effect.)

I was impressed with both his humility and his due diligence.  It
all worked out well and a good time was had by all.


- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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