[TheForge] Re: OT now teaching

[Peter Hirst]

Hear Hear!!  In which regard. let me commend to your attention the 
following:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syxU


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From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
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Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: OT now teaching


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> Washington, Aubrey O. wrote:
>> 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.
>
>    You never know what you'll get... unless you've had the professor 
> before, in which case you might.
>
>    I once got stuck teaching a class in probabilistic modeling for a 
> graduate course in computer science.  I basically spent the entire 
> semester staying 1 chapter ahead of the class.  The book was by a guy 
> named Trivedi.  Good grief, had I not known better I would have sworn that 
> the text was some sort of morbid joke just to see whether the reader would 
> bite or call "bullshit" on its contents.  It was horrible. The only class 
> I ever taught that I did not really enjoy.
>
>    And while I'm at it I will mention one of my all time vicious pet 
> peeves: when someone regurgitates that tired, clapped-out old lie about 
> those who cannot do, teach.  It is one of the few things a person can say 
> that could move me to want to slap the taste out of their yappers. It is 
> such a wickedly wrong thing.  Some of my teachers have been profoundly 
> capable.
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