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nuckollsr(at)cox.net
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Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:38 am Post subject: Thoughts on Teaching

At 01:43 AM 10/4/2006 -0500, you wrote:



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Mr. Nuckolls,



It is my opinion that your particular style of teaching is appropriate for

students that are only marginally interested in the question and in seeking

the solutions.


	


   I disagree. Permit me to elaborate:



   I was exceedingly fortunate in my formative years to

   have enjoyed the attention of an engineer at Boeing who was also

   an amateur radio operator. I knew ALL the hams within about 20 blocks

   of my house. Ed was particularly influential in that he never directly

   answered a question. He began to ask me questions . . . laying foundations

   which supported the answer I was looking for. More often than not, I

   would end up answering my own question. The process of mental imaging

   and logical assemblage of simple-ideas were powerful teaching tools.

   I used those tools only years later when he got me my first teaching

   job at  Wichita U in an adult education course where a number of my

   students were former foremen of mine at Boeing. A few years later,

   those tools served me (and my students) well at Great Lakes.



   I'll respectfully suggest that the marginally interested student

   is ONLY seeking answers. Charles Kettering once noted: "Knowledge

   is not understanding. One may know a great deal and yet understand

   nothing." It's the INTENTLY interested individual that ENJOYS and

   will take the time to ponder the underlying support for a concept

   so that understanding is achieved.

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		  I make the assumption that those who subscribe to the list and take the time

to read and reply to the list have a high level of motivation.


	


   One may be motivated to do many things and on many levels.

   The hallmark of achievement at anything is never a turn-key

   process. Tiger Woods probably hits balls every day. Yehudi Menuhin

   picked up his violin every day. Thomas Edison's thinking was

   probably NEVER silent on the task of pondering some new

   problem. If there are other ways to achieve understanding,

   I don't know what they are. However, if I can make it fun too,

   THEN there is hope for gathering the marginally interested

   student into the conversation as well. Therefore I (and those

   who would take time to participate here on the List) are

   stuck with the best I know how to do today. It's never easy

   but if it isn't fun too, then folks are free to take their

   business elsewhere.

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		  I would be served better by the presentation of as much of the available

data as practical at the beginning of the solution process.

Thank you for taking the time to respond.


	


    I understand but as I wrote earlier I am disappointed that

    you are disappointed. Please understand that if my

    motivation were to simply be a disseminator of esoteric

    knowledge, then I am in danger of being replaced by

    Ask.com and Google. If I am to honor those to took the

    time to share with me in years past, then it's my duty

    to understand the value of what they gave me and to pass

    my inheritance forward.



    Bob . . .

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raymondj(at)frontiernet.n
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:16 pm Post subject: Thoughts on Teaching

Mr. Nuckolls,



	Reasonable people may disagree. Thank you again for your thoughtful

replies. I don't believe the cause of herding electrons will be further

served by any additional input from me on this topic.



Cordially,

Raymond Julian



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