Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Adept
From : Dr. What
Date : Fri Feb 09 2024 07:47:04

-=> Adept wrote to Dr. What <=-

 Ad> That _does_ make sense, though that sort of thing is so hard --
 Ad> teaching _is_ a skill, so it kind of becomes like training an astronaut
 Ad> to drill, or teaching drillers to be an astronaut.

It certainly does take a special kind of person to be a good teacher.

I've known colleges that recruit teachers from the corporate world.  They teach
for a few years, then rotate back into the corporate world.  They may not be
the best teachers, but they do have more knowledge than a teacher who has never
had a "real job".

The problem that I saw when in college then in corporate is that the culture in
academia is very different than corporate and they really don't prepare you for
that.  And for geeky people, that prepartion would have been very useful.

 Ad> repair logic skills. And with those skills I started doing tech support
 Ad> at least by 5th grade when I got called out of a class to fix a
 Ad> computer.

When I was in high school, there was such a huge demand for learning computers
that the continuing education recruited us to teach the elementary school kids.

They were bored until I told them that they could program the computer to do
their math homework.  They had so much fun that they didn't realize that they
worked harder to write that program than the would have done just doing the
homework.

 Ad> And, while I pride myself in being able to explain technical things to
 Ad> less-technically-inclined people, I've never had the slightest clue on
 Ad> how to get people to _think_ in that sort of fashion, even for people
 Ad> who do well with logic outside of the computer realm.

And I found that you can't get people to think in certain ways.  The best you
can do is explain things in many different ways, hoping that one will stick.

Some people just aren't going to "get it".


.... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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