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From: bccarty@whuts.UUCP (Brian C. Carty)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Lecture notes
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 15:21:13 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 15:21:13 1985
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> My basic axioms:
> 
> 1) If you fall asleep in class, you shouldn't be there... there are more 
> comfortable places to miss class (i.e. in bed).
> 
> 2) If the prof. is reading the text to you, don't show up, you're wasting your 
> time. 
> 
> 3) If the prof hand out notes, you know that the notes you have in hand
> are correct. One does not waste time in trying to see what is being scribbled
> up front. One is also given the chance to look ahead in the notes & try to 
> understand. Copying notes is a guarantee that you aren't learning while you are
> writing.
> 

Now if only the lecturers who most desperately need to pass out lecture
notes before each class did so (the ones who simply talk about a whole
lot of things without writing anything on the board), I'm sure that many
more students would get more out of going to lecture.  Wasting time
trying to phrase the professor's ideas have always been one of my
biggest complaints with these types.
-- 
	Brian C. Carty 		AT&T Bell Laboratories - Piscataway, NJ

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