[TheForge] Re: OT now teaching

[Leslie Herbert Lorenz]

I know a teacher who signs off his e-mails with the following:

Teaching is not rocket science it is much much harder.

I know his is right.
Les

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>Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:20:33 -0400
>From: Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net>  
>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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