John Pickard contributed: > >The most difficult thing with my teaching is persuading graduate >students from non-western cultures to say "I don't understand that, >can you explain it again please?" Seems to be a loss of face. But it >sure hinders their education.
This can be a two-way problem. In a lecture for his Mech.Eng degree some years ago my son asked for an explanation of a particular point. The lecturer responded by reading his notes again but *in a louder voice!* The response being - "I didn't say that I couldn't HEAR you I said that I didn't UNDERSTAND!" Tony Moss P.S. He got a 2.1
