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A Lesson In Teaching Physics: You Can’t Give It Away
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[QUOTE="Nik_2213, post: 6870275, member: 252015"] My last Math teacher pre-Uni had the [I][B]most unfortunate[/B] [/I]reputation of asking 'trick' questions. As, that year, none of us were noticeably 'gifted', we soon learned that 'obvious' replies were probably superficial, wrong. This led to paranoid mind-set where no-one dared reply without a 's_l_o_w count' to study what we'd now call an 'IED'... "Red wire ? Green ? Blue ?? The grey 'Coax' ???" This led to trap where 'simple' schol-paper problems, meant to shake out the 'rote-learners', were more time-consuming than the 'hard' ones intended to make you think... Shades of Sherlock's "[I]When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth..[/I]." By cruel irony, I ran into the guy about a decade later at local 'all-formats' computer club: He was so proud of his Commodore PET, but he'd seen my Apple ][+ 3D Astronomy program, published as cover-article in small-press. I'd only used basic Trig plus compound Sin/Cos formulae for the stellar coordinates' tri-axial rotations, but I'd done them right... I caught my breath, apologised that I'd not been one of his better students. He replied to effect that no [B][I]ba[/I][/B][I][B]d [/B][/I]students had attended his course. Let's put it this way: a life-time along, I [B][I]still [/I][/B]cannot figure if that was insult, neutral or compliment... [/QUOTE]
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