I'm reading all these anecdotes about bad teachers without identifying very well. Through most of high school and all of college, I found the teachers to be mostly irrelevant. I prefer learning from textbooks. After all, you don't have much of a pool to choose your teacher from, but generally only the better teachers will write a textbook and then you can choose the best of the better by choosing the best textbook. And with a book, you can learn at whatever pace you want, instead of being slowed down by the teacher. In high school physics, I couldn't stand the teacher's lectures, although compared to stories here maybe he wasn't so bad ( he had a Ph.D. in philosophy, though :-) I learned my high school physics from Sears, Zemansky, and Young, and I enjoyed it immensely!
-- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
