[ExI] annoying, unsolicited advice

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Michael LaTorra <mlatorra at gmail.com> wrote:

> It does seem to be simple. But people who lack the knack for teaching
> apparently find it very hard to grasp.
>
> I taught undergraduates for many years. I told them that they could ask
> any question, and should never feel embarassed. "There is no such thing as
> a stupid student question in this class" I said. "There can be stupid
> answers from the teacher, however. So only I get to be stupid."
>
> Mike LaTorra
>

​Good to meet a fellow teacher.  Thanks for responding.  I just don't know
if anyone can teach teaching.  Maybe most of it is in the personality.
True teachers never burn out, never get tired of teaching the same old
thing because it's always to a new audience.  I loved nearly every minute
of it.   bill w​

>
> On Apr 11, 2017 3:45 PM, "William Flynn Wallace" <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I had a friend, a Jew, a brilliant mathematician, an obsessive compulsive
>> neurotic,  a collector of baseball trivia, among other things, one of which
>> was teacher of undergraduate math - exactly where he should not have been.
>>
>> He was dating one of his students (again) and was tutoring her in math.
>> As he reported to me, he told her that it was so simple that he was
>> astonished that she didn't get it right away, and more along that line.
>>
>> So basically he was humiliating her, completely unintentionally, even
>> after I repeatedly told him what he was doing, which was the same as what
>> he did in his classes.  He was a super sensitive person and would have
>> nearly killed himself if he had known just how badly he made his students
>> feel.
>>
>> He obsessed over this very poor teacher evaluations.  He just didn't get
>> it.  He was a failure at teaching.  He didn't have to be.
>>
>> One does not have to be called a teacher to be one.  I have been taught
>> on this list several times and appreciated that no one talked down to me
>> even though his level of understanding was apparently way above mine.
>>
>> Owners of businesses, managers of anything at any level, are all
>> basically teachers and should realize the effect they have on their
>> employees when they put them down over and over.  And they wonder why
>> managers are among the most hated professions of all.
>>
>> It's really simple, isn't it?
>>
>> bill w
>>
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