Where do we disagree? Where is the fallacy?
Make it a good day.
--Louis--
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:55 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] RE: Do PhDs make better teachers?
Louis Schmier wrote:
>But all other things aren't equal. Ph.D.s are overwhelmingly trained as
>future scholars,
not as future classroom teachers. Certainly to know it is important, but just
because you
>know it doesn't mean you know how to teach it.
>
You're the second person to have indulged in this fallacy in the past
few days. I repeat, although it is true that knowing something doesn't
guarantee the ability to teach it (well), NOT knowing does guarantee the
INability to teach it (at all).
Regards,
--
Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
416-736-5115 ex. 66164
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.yorku.ca/christo
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