<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Michael LaTorra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mlatorra@gmail.com" target="_blank">mlatorra@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">It does seem to be simple. But people who lack the knack for teaching apparently find it very hard to grasp.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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."</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Mike LaTorra</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Apr 11, 2017 3:45 PM, "William Flynn Wallace" <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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. </div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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. </div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">It's really simple, isn't it?</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div>
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