I sat in a class one time with a guy who looked just like Dustin Hoffman,
could be his brother. Rick is probably in his late 50s and is a Linux wizard.
He was totally content to let somebody else drive the keyboard while he fed you
commands. His knowledge of vi is encyclopedic. The only downside was that after
awhile you quit learning anything because Rick would just feed you commands,
after awhile we had to tell him to shut up so we could muddle through and
figure stuff out on our own...
-Curt
On Tuesday, August 13, 2019, 10:43:18 PM EDT, Curley McLain via Mercedes
<[email protected]> wrote:
Yeah, I did that once or twice. Same silence, but the guy was
compliant after that.
I think every class I taught about M$ network engineering had 1 or more
in it that knew things I didn't, and many knew command line or shortcuts
I didn't. I always tried to firgure out who they were and and get them
to contribute to the class and we had a lot of discussions about the
fast way, the right way, the wrong way and the M$ way. The other thing
we did was put people in teams, at which time we had no idea who had no
experience and who could probably teach the class. But usually the
knowledgeable people became engaged in teaching their partner, and often
others. I encouraged this at the first class and at random times
through the class. I tried to position myself as the guide on the
side, and not the know it all leader.
One thing about IT: There is nobody who knows everything. I learned
stuff in every class I taught. The most frustrating thing was when I
ran through the lab the night before,and everything worked perfectly;
then M$ dropped a patch overnight that broke the lab. So in the class,
the lab would not work. But I turned it into a troubleshooting
experience and challenged the class to figure out why it broke and what
the fix or workaround was. Those guys in the class that could probably
teach it saved me every time. Once in a while I had time to sit down
and try to find the fix and actually found it before the class did.
Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote on 8/13/19 6:52 PM:
> I finally got so irritated that I stopped the class after one of his
> questions where he challenged my knowledge. I walked over, reached out with
> the pointer/clicker I was using, and said, “Tommy, it’s clear that you must
> know far more than I do about our products, so why don’t you conduct the
> class for the rest of the day?”
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