[TheForge] Re: OT now teaching

[Ekaterina Harrison]

Andy,

> 	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.
>

Such a good point!  Isn't it amazing seeing propaganda and  
conditioning at work!
I've heard it said many times that a bad carpenter is quick to blame  
his tools. I find that someone who feels lacking is quick to blame  
everyone under the sun!

Ekaterina

On Apr 10, 2008, at 5:46 PM, theforge-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:

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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.