On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 07:44:45AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > Graham Percival <[email protected]> writes: > > > We need a *secretary*. We need a *paper pusher*. We need a > > trained monkey. I could even teach a first-year university > > student how to be a perfect Frog meister, and having taught for a > > few years you have no idea how low my opinion of those creatures > > are. > > They could become like you if taught properly. Didn't you?
I have never told my teacher "just wait a moment" in order to finish writing a message on facebook during class. I have never answered a mobile phone while my teacher was giving me a short oral examination (part of graded labs). I have never submitted code for grades with a different student's name still in a comment at the top of a file. I don't mind explaining -- slowly, over five or ten minutes -- how you can calculate how many coins to return to a customer using division and modulus instead of using a while() loop and subtraction (i.e. "items cost $2.35, customer gives $5"). I don't mind teaching fourth-year engineering students how to convert between degrees and radians. I don't even mind repeating that lesson three times, for a total of an hour of lecture time over a few weeks, when it became clear that most of them still didn't get it. 4th-year electrical engineering. Not music students. But hey, it's my job to teach them at whatever level they're at, right? I don't mind that stuff. But facebook and taking phone calls while I'm talking to a student? No, that's just not kosher. (sure, 30% of the first-year students are a joy to teach. But the overall horrendous level of facebook and plagiarism tends to stick in one's mind much more than the students who actually work.) - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
